https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559110 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559110#c9 --- Comment #9 from Gábor Varga <vargusz@fazekas.hu> 2012-02-07 15:08:29 UTC --- Leaving write-only mode, I have noticed that comment #2 has already shown the root cause. The transition from the --poke option of gnome-screensaver-command to the SimulateUserActivity D-BUS interface of gnome-screensaver has just been an additional problem, the original one was never solved. Also, comment #1 points to the original upstream Gnome bug: 17 new comments have appeared there since, including a few (broken) attempts to fix the issue. Despite all efforts, the bug remains in the state RESOLVED WONTFIX, as the Gnome people would like the video players to adopt their D-BUS interface, and the video player people (both MPlayer and VLC) say that they are only willing to use standardized interfaces (freedesktop.org). So the patch in comment #5 is not enough. Debian testing has an additional patch at [1], in file xdg-screensaver-new-gnome.diff. It requires perl, perl-Net-DBus and perl-X11-Protocol, however, it failed on my openSUSE system with message "Connection to server failed: No protocol specified" when calling X11::Protocol->new(), so some minor modifications might be necessary. The Debian bug was tracked at [2], and was solved on November 20, 2011. [1] http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xdg-utils/xdg-utils_1.1.0~rc1+git20... [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=610155 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.