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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Knowing when a screensaver is active
From:       Bo Thorsen <gobo () imada ! sdu ! dk>
Date:       1999-05-19 7:27:27
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On Tue, 18 May 1999, Martin Jones wrote:

> Kurt Granroth wrote:
> > 
> > X gurus!
> > 
> > Is there a way to reliably tell when a screensaver is active?  KBiff has an
> > option where it will pop up a dialog when new mail arrives.  Unfortunately, if
> > a screensaver is active, it will pop up the dialog on TOP of the screensaver.
> > This is not good.
> 
> In KDE 1.1.1 it will not appear on top of the screensaver.
> KDE 2.0 will still exhibit this behaviour, but the rewrite
> will fix it.

Actually I think the ideal thing would be for the screensavers to be able
to somehow be told and then show that new messages has arrived.

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Bo Thorsen
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