* PCMan <pcman...@gmail.com> [2010-09-14 15:48]: > > No, running "gnome-screensaver-command -l" without > > gnome-screensaver running will print > > **Message: Screensaver is not running! > > and return exit code 1. > This is not the case on my box. > It tried to launch gnome-screensaver even if this command failed. > I'm using ubuntu 10.04. > > Please read the source code of gnome-screesaver-command. > Is doesn't do what you said. > > http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-screensaver/tree/src/gnome-screensaver-command.c > > It exit with code 1 only when you pass wrong arguments, when dbus is > not available, and when you query the version number. > It return 0 even if gnome-screensaver is not running. > The dbus call, however, will cause the gnome-screensaver service being > launched. > I don't know the version of gnome-screensaver you're using, but from > the latest code in git, it doesn't not work the way we want.
I admit you are right on this one, the DBus autostart seems to have been introduced in April: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-screensaver/commit/?id=47155576403fea9339a1f702e3dc63455b763fb8 They more or less silently changed the behavior of gnome-screensaver-command breaking shell scripts (including one of mine for inhibiting the screensaver while running an application) relying on the previous behavior which was modeled after xscreensaver-command, just lovely. If someone has gnome-screensaver installed and is running another screensaver I don't see any way to tell from a shellscript which one to use now. Looking for a process is just plainly broken and unreliable by principle, e.g. someome might suspend before the session has started gnome-screensaver, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=616225 For lxsession I'd propose to use my script and remove gnome-screensaver-command from the list. If someone wants to use it, it can still be added as an explicit locking command in the config file. Since I find changing the cli silently in a minor version upgrade unacceptable I am also going to file a bug against gnome-screensaver. -- Guido Berhoerster ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list Lxde-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
