[SDL] SDL tampers with display power settings on the sly

[Brian]

Yes, you have a point. The only reason I have a screen saver anymore
is because after X minutes of me being absent I want no-one else to
use my session. Having this disabled is not desired. If a given
application wants to do this, either SDL could expose the
functionality (or an add-on library) or let the application find
another way (using platform specific methods or another library).

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Erik <esigra at gmail.com> wrote:
>  What if the monitoring process is killed? No, it has to be handled on
>  the system level to be reliable. You say "could", so that is not how it
>  is done now? What mechanism does it rely on now? None, it seems since it
>  is broken. But why bother at all? What other libraries mess around with
>  settings like this? Qt? GTK? No, they don't. Then why does SDL for
>  $DEITYs sake?