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Idea #16076: Customisable program exception list for screensaver

Written by AndrewLuecke the 30 Nov 08 at 04:42. Related project: Gnome. Status: Deleted
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There should be a way for users to declare a centralised list of programs where the screensaver (or monitor power saving) should never run for. Maybe under screensavers-advanced.

Some programs like VLC support an option to do so already, however, a centralised way of doing so would allow any program to disable the screensaver, whilst still providing burn-in protection (or monitor power off) in cases where it is required.

It's a much better option for businesses who run Openoffice Impress slideshows 24/7 in the store window and have to disable the protection entirely normally. Only to find impressed crashed overnight and there is now an error message burnt into a plasma screen which is only 20 hours old.

This way, if impress crashes, the screensaver would still be active if its been set up properly.
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andruk (Idea reviewer) wrote on the 30 Nov 08 at 07:48
Or you could have programs automatically add and remove themselves from this list as needed.

+1

sayakb (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 30 Nov 08 at 09:59
The gnome-screensaver used to pop in each time I used realplayer-linux to watch a movie/video.

+1

Yanqui wrote on the 30 Nov 08 at 11:09
what about an area of your screen that just disables the screen saver? I mean, what about watching movies in firefox? You don't always want firefox to disable the screen saver, but some times you do...

iKonaK wrote on the 30 Nov 08 at 12:05
i + but i hate screensavers, and sounds :)

Ubuwu wrote on the 30 Nov 08 at 14:00
Impress should disable the screensaver while viewing a presentation, so you don't need to disable the screensaver completely like in the example given here. If any program that should disable the screensaver temporary doesn't do that, it is a bug in that program. We don't need a separate list for that.

Moreover, only running a program should not disable the screensaver. E.g. for impress, the screensaver should be active when you are just editing a presentation, but disabled when a presentation is being shown.

Yanqui wrote on the 30 Nov 08 at 23:24
@AndrewLuecke: I should have communicated that better. How about just an area of your screen where if the mouse is there the screensaver is disabled. eg: move your mouse to the top right corner and the screensaver won't come on. I'm pretty sure this already exists in kde, I'd imagine the same should exist in gnome.


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