On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:44:30AM -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote: > Ubuntu 9.04's new notification system is really nice and non obtrusive, > however it can still get in the way if you need the entire screen. > Accordingly, the notifications system has been designed to not draw > notifications when a program such as a movie player is telling the > operating system to suppress the screen saver. > > I propose we enable this functionality for Wine whenever we've switched to > a full screen mode. I assume there's also a similar function for > applications on Windows, so if we haven't done so already we should > probably implement that and suppress the screen saver then as well. > > > Thoughts?
I think the app is supposed to do this for instance via dlls/user32/sysparams.c and the SPI_SETSCREENSAVERRUNNING SystemParameter or hook into ddraw in some methods. Ciuao, MArcus
