Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-lxde (20 mails)

[Hendrik Woltersdorf <hendrikw@xxxxxxxx>]

Am 27.07.2010 16:41, schrieb Guido Berhoerster:
> * Hendrik Woltersdorf <hendrikw@xxxxxxxx> [2010-07-26 21:50]:
> > I am using DOSBox for very old DOS-programs. In KDE everything works
> > fine (OpenSuse 11.2 or 11.3). On 11.3 I tested the LXDE desktop and the
> > screensaver activates every 5 minutes when I am working inside of the
> > DOSBox window. Other Linux distributions and/or desktops had the same
> > type of problems (related to the SDL-library?) years ago - and solved
>
> Other distributions might not use xscreensaver, does this happen
> with gnome-screensaver on openSUSE as well? You can try to
> install it without dragging in too many dependencies.

I tried it. It did not work:
** (gnome-screensaver:6079): WARNING **: Failed to get session presence
proxy: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SessionManager': no such name
> > them. Is there a way to get rid of this problem without deactivating the
> > screensaver completely?
>
> As a workaround you could also inhibit xscreensaver by starting
> your application like this:
> dosbox & while kill -0 $!; do xscreensaver-command -deactivate; sleep 1; done 
> > /dev/null 2>&1
I tried this one too, but could not get it working (bash rejects "$!").
I am not good enough in bash scripting to correct it.

regards,
Hendrik Woltersdorf
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