[Bug 32457] Screensaver activates while playing SDL games

[Dana Olson]

Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/32457

Summary changed to:
    Screensaver activates while playing SDL games
Description changed to:
    I am running a current Dapper as of 22-Feb-06 07:00:00 -0500

    I started playing a game, Frozen Bubble, and I was doing rather
    well, and then the screensaver came on. I couldn't get it to go away
    without hitting escape several times, exiting Frozen Bubble, losing
    my progress in the game.

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    UPDATED DESCRIPTION:

    The screensaver activates with many (perhaps all?) SDL games that do
    not require mouse input to play. Some of these games can remove the
    screensaver upon moving the mouse, but not all of them, and this is
    not a solution.

    It also affects commercial games such as Professor Fizzwizzle that
    use SDL.

    If a patch can be added to libsdl, then this should fix all games
    and apps that use it, avoiding individual patches for every affected
    game.

    The patch could go in the keyboard handling routine, although if
    there's a better place in the code to put it, it might be better to
    avoid launching the screensaver at all when an SDL game is running.