https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559110
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559110#c9
--- Comment #9 from Gábor Varga 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
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