[Lazarus] "Defeating" a screen saver
zeljko
zeljko at holobit.net
Fri Sep 28 13:47:55 CEST 2012
> Health warning:
> http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/pipermail/lazarus/2008-August/037407.ht
> ml suggests following a handle in TForm to arrive at a window ID, but that
> appears to depend on the combination of widget set and window manager: as
> a particular example, it's unreliable with gtk2 on top of KDE.
>
> Without delving into the raw X API, the only reliable way of doing this
> appears to be to run xwininfo and parse the output. The window ID from
> that is compatible with xdg-screensaver.
What's problem with gtk2 and KDE ? You already have helper functions for X11
in gtk2widgetset.inc, so there you can see howto get XWindow handle and do
whatever with it with direct calls.
zeljko
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