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[Sergey Kondakov <434476@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(In reply to Sergey Kondakov from comment #86)
> 2) GNOME screensaver requires the core GNOME framework to go with it, not
> just GTK. Kinda overkill for a screensaver.
Scratch that ! I just read up on:
http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/10/has-gnome-3-decided-that-people-shouldnt-want-screen-savers/ (from XSS author)
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-o-screensaver (Ubuntu fix plan that gone nowhere)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screensaver/+bug/994612 (report about complete uselessness of GNOME SS)

Long story short:
Gnome gone Reverse-Xzibit and removed screensaver out of... their screensaver. Which locks the screen... but HAS NOT SCREENSAVERS.

> Which makes whole thing pretty much useless.
Even more than i imagined and complained previously.
> Moreover, aforementioned "Caffeine" Ubuntu hack is pretty crude...
Looks like in non-obsolete versions they removed XSS support... if it even worked. Which makes it also not an option.
> And i don't exactly expect "modern features". I expect _Firefox to
> inhibit/suspend a screensaver when it draws a video. Any videos and any
> screensavers_.
All of that above makes XSS The Only Option of having actual screensavers under X (except using KDE SS BUT ONLY under KDE session, because it's not even a binary).
And for that to work either:
1) FF devs must play nice with XSS
2) XSS dev should be persuaded to provide dbus interface as dbus today is the cross-DE daemon interface
3) XSS could be forked by a hacker who's not afraid of dbus

In any case this bug cannot be closed as "FIXED" because actual
screesaver is not getting disabled under Linux, only lockers are.

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Title:
  screensaver starts while playing HTML5 videos

Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser:
  Fix Released
Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “firefox-3.5” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

  karmic alpha6 + updates

  - click on a .ogv video link
  - after watching some time, screensaver starts.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Sep 22 08:45:53 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: firefox 3.5.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=de_AT.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.34-generic
  SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic x86_64

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