On 25/09/12 11:01, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > I appreciate that there might be no guaranteed portable answer to this > one, and FWIW I'm primarily interested in the Linux+X+KDE combination. > > If a program knows that something's going on that it might later need to > tell the user about, e.g. that there's serial comms going on in the > background even if the GUI's not being updated, is it possible to do > anything that the LCL and lower levels will interpret similarly to > keyboard and mouse activity in order to prevent a screen saver from > kicking in?
xdg-screensaver is a script that you can use to control the screensaver (seems to support all the ones I know). It's in the xdg-utils package on my system. I don't know of a nicer way to do this and cover all the bases, except to use dbus with org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver, most desktop environments should work with that, I think. Henry -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
