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Im developing an application that has a fullscreen mode. Is there a way that I can disable the screensaver?

April 26, 2017application developing disable fullscreen mode screensaver

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Im developing an application that has a fullscreen mode. Is there a way that I can disable the screensaver?

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Yes. gnome-screensaver has a simple to use DBus API for this. The way it works is that your application will request that the screensaver activation on idle be “inhibited” until your application says that activation can be “allowed” or your application exits.