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?
Thanks, Scott Ritchie
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
2009/4/16 Scott Ritchie scott@open-vote.org:
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?
Sounds like a good idea.
Also, Compiz/Fusion (or the KDE equivalent) would also need disabling on full screen (as some apps have issues with it), and restore when leaving full screen (if it was previously enabled). This should be handled on the Windows side from the DWM APIs. IIRC, there is a DBUS protocol which enables this to be done on the Linux side (which should be appropriately #if HAVE_DBUS'd).
Searching on Google, it looks like the screensaver protocol is also dbus (e.g. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7002?getfile=1123 for a patch that adds this support to mplayer). It also looks Gnome specific (FD.o does not appear to have a screensaver specification). I could not see what KDE uses (if it is a C++ API it will be unusable for Wine, although http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2002-March/011941.html provides a script that calls various helper programs, so not sure how useful it is).
Does anyone know if the Gnome protocol is stable, or if it is likely to be dropped/changed? Also if it is supported by KDE3/4?
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