Mouse to end sleep

Mellowbob · 2021-11-25 16:12:26

When I computer goes to sleep (and I think it is xscreensaver controlling this) a simple key press will wake it up. However, a mouse movement or click will also do so, but it does not actually work. The monitor turns on (I get a green status light on the monitor and a monitor message about <dvi-0> being active). But, I sill need to press a key to stop the screen saver. Can I fix this so that a mouse action or a keyboard hit work the same?

Mellowbob · 2021-12-12 16:18:51

Well, figured this out ... a bit of sleuthing.

Problem was that both cinnamon-screensaver and xscreensaver were running. Bad: Only one screen saver should be running!

Stopping xscreensaver was pretty simple since it was listed in my session->autostart. So, now I have cinnamon-screen saver only.

However, I have been unable to achieve the opposite: Have xscreensaver running but no cinnamon-screensaver. Anyone know were this is called?

Last edited by Mellowbob (2021-12-12 16:24:07)

ToZ · 2021-12-12 17:18:36

I'm not too familiar with cinnamon, but isn't their screensaver baked into the daemon? Meaning it can't be disabled? Is the cinnamon daemon running? Maybe killing or stopping the process would disable it.

Mellowbob · 2021-12-12 17:27:51

I looked at the program /usr/bin/cinnamon-screensaver and it's just a python script which calls (I thing) the gnome screensaver.

#!/usr/bin/python3

import gi
gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0')
gi.require_version('GdkX11', '3.0')
gi.require_version('CScreensaver', '1.0')

from gi.repository import Gtk, Gdk, CScreensaver
import signal
import gettext
import argparse
import os
import setproctitle

import config
import status
from util import utils, settings

signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal.SIG_DFL)
gettext.install("cinnamon-screensaver", "/usr/share/locale")

class Main:
    """
    This is the main entry point to the program, and it shows up
    in the process list.  We do any theme preparation here as well.

    We start the ScreensaverService from here.
    """
    def __init__(self):
        parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Cinnamon Screensaver')
        parser.add_argument('--debug', dest='debug', action='store_true',
                            help='Print out some extra debugging info')
        parser.add_argument('--interactive-debug', dest='interactive', action='store_true',
                            help='If multiple monitors are in use, only cover one monitor, and launch GtkInspector')
        parser.add_argument('--disable-locking', dest='lock_disabled', action='store_true',
                            help='Disable the lock screen')
        parser.add_argument('--version', dest='version', action='store_true',
                            help='Display the current version')
        parser.add_argument('--no-daemon', dest='no_daemon', action='store_true',
                            help="Deprecated: left for compatibility only - we never become a daemon")
        args = parser.parse_args()

        if settings.get_custom_screensaver() != '':
            print("custom screensaver selected, exiting cinnamon-screensaver.")
            quit()

        if args.version:
            print("cinnamon-screensaver %s" % (config.VERSION))
            quit()

        status.LockEnabled = not args.lock_disabled
        status.Debug = args.debug
        status.InteractiveDebug = args.interactive

        if status.Debug:
            print("Debug mode active")

        if args.lock_disabled:
            print("Locking disabled")

        from service import ScreensaverService
        # This is here mainly to allow the notification watcher to have a valid status.Debug value
        import singletons

        Gtk.Settings.get_default().connect("notify::gtk-theme-name", self.on_theme_changed)
        self.do_style_overrides()

        ScreensaverService()
        Gtk.main()

    def on_theme_changed(self, settings, pspec, data=None):
        self.do_style_overrides()

    def do_style_overrides(self):
        """
        Here we try to check for theme support in the current system's gtk theme.

        We do this by retrieving a string of the current theme's final style sheet,
        then searching for the .csstage style class.  If it's found, we return, otherwise
        we add our own application-priority provider as a fallback.  While we have the
        theme string, we check for a variable name we can use for the fallback experience,
        and adjust it in our application stylesheet if necessary before adding it as a
        provider.
        """
        theme_name = Gtk.Settings.get_default().get_property("gtk-theme-name")
        provider = Gtk.CssProvider.get_named(theme_name)

        css = provider.to_string()

        if ".csstage" not in css:
            print("Cinnamon Screensaver support not found in current theme - adding some...")

            path = os.path.join(config.pkgdatadir, "cinnamon-screensaver.css")

            f = open(path, 'r')
            fallback_css = f.read()
            f.close()

            if "@define-color theme_selected_bg_color" in css:
                pass
            elif "@define-color selected_bg_color" in css:
                print("replacing theme_selected_bg_color with selected_bg_color")
                fallback_css = fallback_css.replace("@theme_selected_bg_color", "@selected_bg_color")
            else:
                print("replacing theme_selected_bg_color with Adwaita blue")
                fallback_css = fallback_css.replace("@selected_bg_color", "#4a90d9")

            fallback_prov = Gtk.CssProvider()

            if fallback_prov.load_from_data(fallback_css.encode()):
                Gtk.StyleContext.add_provider_for_screen (Gdk.Screen.get_default(), fallback_prov, 600)
                Gtk.StyleContext.reset_widgets(Gdk.Screen.get_default())

if __name__ == "__main__":
    setproctitle.setproctitle('cinnamon-screensaver')

    main = Main()

From that point on I have no idea Yes, I could kill the process when I log into an xfce4 session ... but that really sounds like the "hard way" to do thing. Not a big deal ... but it is odd.

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