On Jun 24, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

On Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

To answer my own question, it seems to be this command:
gnome-screensaver-command --deactivate

Ah, I would have more readily found :

 killall gnome-screensaver
 rm -f /usr/bin/gnome-screensaver

Because, compared to xscreensaver, gnome-screensaver really follows the mentality outlined in Uncyclopedia :

 « If you find a feature, it might confuse a user, so remove it. »

Because none of the options of each screensaver are available in the GNOME dialogues, despite the fact that there's a shitload of XML interface files coming with the plugins, and that the only goal of those files is to actually allow to to build those dialogues automatically, and despite the fact that it's already implemented with Gtk outside of the GNOME distribution, possibly in a programme that gnome-screensaver is a fork of.

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After all that, I ended up having to add some stuff to /etc/X11/ xorg.conf because of fglrx/ATI issues:

Section "ServerFlags"
   Option "BlankTime" "0"
   Option "StandbyTime" "0"
   Option "SuspendTime" "0"
   Option "OffTime" "0"
EndSection

It would be awesome to have a [screensaver] object that worked on all platforms, so you could just hook up a toggle to it and control the screensaver... I whipped up some rough, simple versions:

.hc

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