// screensaver_control.cxx -- disable the screensaver // // Written by Rebecca Palmer, December 2013. // // Copyright (C) 2013 Rebecca Palmer // // This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or // modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as // published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the // License, or (at your option) any later version. // // This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but // WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of // MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU // General Public License for more details. // // You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License // along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software // Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. // // $Id$ #include #include #ifdef HAVE_DBUS #include //Uses the low-level libdbus rather than GDBus/QtDBus to avoid adding more dependencies than necessary. http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/api/html/index.html #endif /** Attempt to disable the screensaver. * * Screensavers/powersavers often do not monitor the joystick, and it is hence advisable to disable them while FlightGear is running. * This function always exists, but currently only actually does anything on Linux, where it will disable gnome-screensaver/kscreensaver until FlightGear exits. * * The following might be useful to anyone wishing to add Windows support: * http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa373233%28v=vs.85%29.aspx * http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa373208%28v=vs.85%29.aspx (While this documentation says it only disables powersave, it is elsewhere reported to also disable screensaver) * http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd405534%28v=vs.85%29.aspx */ void fgOSDisableScreensaver() { #if defined(HAVE_DBUS) && defined(SG_UNIX) && !defined(SG_MAC) DBusConnection *dbus_connection; DBusMessage *dbus_inhibit_screenlock; unsigned int window_id=1000;//fake-it doesn't seem to care unsigned int inhibit_idle=8;//8=idle inhibit flag const char *app_name="org.flightgear"; const char *inhibit_reason="Uses joystick input"; dbus_connection=dbus_bus_get(DBUS_BUS_SESSION,NULL); dbus_connection_set_exit_on_disconnect(dbus_connection,FALSE);//Don't close us if we lose the DBus connection //Two possible interfaces; we send on both, as that is easier than trying to determine which will work //GNOME: https://people.gnome.org/~mccann/gnome-session/docs/gnome-session.html dbus_inhibit_screenlock=dbus_message_new_method_call("org.gnome.SessionManager","/org/gnome/SessionManager","org.gnome.SessionManager","Inhibit"); dbus_message_append_args(dbus_inhibit_screenlock,DBUS_TYPE_STRING,&app_name,DBUS_TYPE_UINT32,&window_id,DBUS_TYPE_STRING,&inhibit_reason,DBUS_TYPE_UINT32,&inhibit_idle,DBUS_TYPE_INVALID); dbus_connection_send(dbus_connection,dbus_inhibit_screenlock,NULL); //KDE, GNOME 3.6+: http://standards.freedesktop.org/idle-inhibit-spec/0.1/re01.html dbus_inhibit_screenlock=dbus_message_new_method_call("org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver","/ScreenSaver","org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver","Inhibit"); dbus_message_append_args(dbus_inhibit_screenlock,DBUS_TYPE_STRING,&app_name,DBUS_TYPE_STRING,&inhibit_reason,DBUS_TYPE_INVALID); dbus_connection_send(dbus_connection,dbus_inhibit_screenlock,NULL); dbus_connection_flush(dbus_connection); //Currently ignores the reply; it would need to read it if we wanted to determine whether we've succeeded and/or allow explicitly re-enabling the screensaver //Don't disconnect, that ends the inhibition #endif }