On Monday 27 April 2015 16:31:30 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
As I tried to say, my take on this is that the problem should be
dealt
with at another level. Blanking/locking the screen is a desktop policy
issue. It should not be left to the individual apps to decide whether to
implement something reasonable or not. I would ask for a *global* switch
(we can argue about what the default should be) that allows the user to
inhibit blanking/locking while a video is running. It may be that the
condition "video is running in some window" is not easy to detect
reliably, and maybe that's why it hasn't been done for X Window
environments, but we can dream.
Not sure about others, but I do employ feature of screen corners, with one
configured to lock immediately, and other to stop screen from locking. Works
fine IMHO.
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