On Gutsy, the bug is still there even though upstream claims to have fixed it on 2006-07-27
** Summary changed: - gnome-screensaver activates while playing SDL games + [Gutsy] [Regression] gnome-screensaver activates while playing SDL games ** Description changed: + Gutsy : on final release of Ubuntu 7.10, gnome-screensaver activates + while playing sdl games, like armagetronad. This is a regression from + Edgy and Feisty + + + Following is the original report : I am running a current Dapper as of 22-Feb-06 07:00:00 -0500 I started playing a game, Frozen Bubble, and I was doing rather well, and then the screensaver came on. I couldn't get it to go away without hitting escape several times, exiting Frozen Bubble, losing my progress in the game. --- UPDATED DESCRIPTION: The screensaver activates with many (perhaps all?) SDL games that do not require mouse input to play. Some of these games can remove the screensaver upon moving the mouse, but not all of them, and this is not a solution. It also affects commercial games such as Professor Fizzwizzle that use SDL. If a patch can be added to libsdl, then this should fix all games and apps that use it, avoiding individual patches for every affected game. The patch could go in the keyboard handling routine, although if there's a better place in the code to put it, it might be better to avoid launching the screensaver at all when an SDL game is running. -- [Gutsy] [Regression] gnome-screensaver activates while playing SDL games https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/32457 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
