--disable-screensaver option

This option would add the screensaver interface under linux

The user should never see the screensaver "interface", it's far too counter-intuitive

The need to enable the --disable-screensaver option is less unintuitive but still very unintuitive. And then, an enabling option that starts with --disable is confusing as well, though I admit I can't really think of a less confusing name.

Maybe make this the default and have an option to disable the screensaver's disabling, ie. start the "screensaver" plugin by default.

Why the DisableXScreenSaver in xcommon.c is not working ?

Could the code of the screensaver intf be move into the x11/xvideo(/glx) module ?

No way. It would have to be added to all video output plugins.

Hehe, I hadn't read the comments.

You're really impressively stubborn :)

To answer: it would obviously be the default behaviour. I won't make the option "screensaver" which would be default false, that would be utterly stupid.

Anyway, if there is code in x11 intf that could work, it's by far the best solution. Of course it would have to be done in all vout plugins, but that's obvious you need that. Disabling screensaver is a specific work, and Windows/OS X already do that.

I'll have a look at the xcommon code.

(In [12580]) Default to disabling screensaver under X (Closes:#253 (closed)) Hide screensaver interface from the prefs

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