[ltp] Getting screensaver to ignore mouse movement?

[Richard Neill]

Matt Graham wrote:
> On Saturday 10 March 2007 22:52, after a long battle with technology, 
> Richard Neill wrote:
>> Matt Graham wrote:
>>> In general, when I've seen the Trackpoint's drift for more than
>>> about 2 seconds, I've seen the firmware autocorrect for the drift
>>> pretty quickly.
>> One pixel per 3 minutes is only noticeable if you set out to measure 
>> it!  But it does stop kde's screensaver from activating.
>>
>> However, xscreensaver doesn't have this problem: it treats tiny mouse
>> movements (< 10px in a certain time) as negligible.
> 
> If this is the case, it's time to hack KDE's screensaver to fix it.  

I think you're right.

> However, KDE 3.5.5's screensaver can (and does) run xscreensaver 
> modules.  Does the problem persist if you use one of those 
> (like "Apple ]["?)

The xscreensaver modules are simply programs which run in an x-window, 
and draw interesting things - they can be called from any application. 
It's the xscreensaver *daemon* which would be responsible for blanking, 
so I don't think this is relevant.

> 
>> One supplementary bug. xscreensaver now fails to put the display into
>> power-off mode. This is definitely a bug.  Manually setting DPMS 
>> timeouts (xset dpms xxx yyy zzz) does work.  But if I let xscreensaver 
>> set the same values, it doesn't. "xset dpms force off" does what I 
>> want. 
> 
> Couldn't tell you here.  I don't typically use any screensaver programs 
> except "blank screen" and "xset dpms force off".

Am doing some experiments on this - I think I may have a fix - will post 
it, if it proves stable.

Richard