Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/32457
Summary changed to:
Screensaver activates while playing SDL games
Description changed to:
I am running a current Dapper as of 22-Feb-06 07:00:00 -0500
I started playing a game, Frozen Bubble, and I was doing rather
well, and then the screensaver came on. I couldn't get it to go away
without hitting escape several times, exiting Frozen Bubble, losing
my progress in the game.
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UPDATED DESCRIPTION:
The screensaver activates with many (perhaps all?) SDL games that do
not require mouse input to play. Some of these games can remove the
screensaver upon moving the mouse, but not all of them, and this is
not a solution.
It also affects commercial games such as Professor Fizzwizzle that
use SDL.
If a patch can be added to libsdl, then this should fix all games
and apps that use it, avoiding individual patches for every affected
game.
The patch could go in the keyboard handling routine, although if
there's a better place in the code to put it, it might be better to
avoid launching the screensaver at all when an SDL game is running.
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