[Gossip-dev] Gnome Screensaver Support

[Brian Pepple]

On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 12:33 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 08:36:17PM +0100, Richard Hult wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Nice! I'm not sure if it's OK to only add an option if you enable
> > another option (gss/dbus here). We should have something like:
> > 
> > --with-idle-checking=gss/xss/auto
> 
> It would be much nicer if this was a run-time instead of a compile-time
> decision imho. Try to use gnome-screensaver by default, but fallback to xss if
> it's not available (i.e. the org.gnome.ScreenSaver service is not on the
> session bus). And maybe even go back to using gss if it becomes available (i.e.
> somebody claims the service name on the session bus).
> 
> This would mean distribution can enable gss by default, without having to worry
> that people who don't use it see regressions :)

I'm working on a patch that does just this.  Provided that you've
compiled dbus support into Gossip, it will first try gss, otherwise it
will default to xss at run-time.

/B
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Brian Pepple <bdpepple at ameritech.net>

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