[Bug 32457] Re: [Gutsy] [Regression] gnome-screensaver activates while playing SDL games
It's not a bug, it's a feature...(Bill Gates, circa 1995) This problem continues in Intrepid. As the fellow mentioned above, UT2004 goes from fullscreen to windowed and becomes unresponsive. Sometimes I can recover by minimizing/maximizing UT2004 sometimes I have to Cntl/Alt/Bksp to restart gnome. -- [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
[Bug 32457] Re: [Gutsy] [Regression] gnome-screensaver activates while playing SDL games
** Tags added: regression-release -- [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
[Bug 32457] Re: [Gutsy] [Regression] gnome-screensaver activates while playing SDL games
The bug is still there on Hardy Heron, but it seems to only affect games that doesn't receive any mouse or keyboard input, for example games I play with a usb joypad.. very annoying.. -- [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
[Bug 32457] Re: [Gutsy] [Regression] gnome-screensaver activates while playing SDL games
I only have this problem when compiz is enabled. All the games I play fullscreen have this problem, no matter the input. If I disable compiz, the problem goes away. -- [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
[Bug 32457] Re: [Gutsy] [Regression] gnome-screensaver activates while playing SDL games
Negative. I have had Compiz disabled the day I installed Gutsy (various problem, and no way to get the Exposé-like feature from Feisty's, which was the only function I found useful. The screensaver problem appears whether you are using Compiz or not. -- [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
[Bug 32457] Re: [Gutsy] [Regression] gnome-screensaver activates while playing SDL games
See related bugs at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/163865 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/155263 The bugs above seem to be related to having Compiz and the screen saver enabled while playing certain games. -- [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
[Bug 32457] Re: [Gutsy] [Regression] gnome-screensaver activates while playing SDL games
I also have this problem on my Ubuntu 7.1 at the date Feb 8th, 2008. When I playing the game Chromium using only the mouse, after sometimes the screen saver appears and locks the computer. -- [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
[Bug 32457] Re: [Gutsy] [Regression] gnome-screensaver activates while playing SDL games
This bug is causing problems with keyboard and mouse input in UT2004. When gnome-screensaver tries to activate, the keyboard and mouse would seem to reset. All of a sudden, I'd be facing down, and whatever key I was holding stops registering until I let go and press it again. It took me a while to figure out this was caused by gnome-screensaver because I don't actually see it activate. It just eats my input while I'm playing. A couple of other people have encountered this as well. Here are the relevant threads: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=557543 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=595869 -- [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
[Bug 32457] Re: [Gutsy] [Regression] gnome-screensaver activates while playing SDL games
I think upstream isn't aware of this bug, maybe someone should open a new bug. Probably to the gnome-screensaver developers. -- [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
[Bug 32457] Re: [Gutsy] [Regression] gnome-screensaver activates while playing SDL games
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
[Bug 32457] Re: [Gutsy] [Regression] gnome-screensaver activates while playing SDL games
Merely trapping keyboard input as well as mouse movement may not be sufficient, especially for games that are primarily played with a joystick, gamepad, or other specialised input device. Ideally the screensaver should trap on any input events, regardless of source. -- [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
