[SDL] Full screen mode disabling screensaver?

[Bill Kendrick]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 01:14:53PM -0400, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:
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> TuxPaint is fairly unique among SDL apps in that you could have someone 
> walk away and not quit...it's more a regular application and less a game.
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> We could probably add an environment variable to SDL for this, but it 
> might be cleaner to either just ship a hacked SDL that returns 
> immediately from X11_DisableScreenSaver() or build it into TuxPaint itself.

I believe the machine in question was an Ubuntu box, so it'd be using
the version of libSDL that ships with that distro -- not anything I packaged
along with Tux Paint.

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> I could see a value in having the environment variable, since other apps 
> could use this, too, but on the other hand...another environment 
> variable?!  :)
> 
> Let me know what you think is best.

So, yeah... an env. var. would be spiffy.  Thanks! :)

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