xdg-screensaver not working

Andrea mariofutire at googlemail.com
Mon Feb 16 21:06:05 UTC 2009


Rex Dieter wrote:
> Andrea wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've tried to use xdg-screensaver many times with KDE 4 but it has never
>> worked. I am on Fedora 9.
>>
>> This is the output
>>
>> [andrea at thinkpad ~]$ xdg-screensaver status
>> call failed
>> ERROR:  kdesktop KScreensaverIface isEnabled returned ''
> 
> Nod, xdg-screensaver doesn't yet support KDE4 (adding support via the 
> assocated new dbus methios is not-trivial).  I've been slowly working on it 
> over time... 

I think this little app is very useful for all cases when an application does not natively support
this feature.
It is very easy to write a small script doing it, much easier than navigating to the correct point
in the config.

Thanks for the update.

Andrea




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