[vlc-devel] backporting wayland inhibiter module to 3.x branch

[Alexandre Janniaux]

Hi,

What do you mean ? What are your issues ?

I use it everyday without much issues, only this and
a compositor-specific bug with the Qt fullscreen
controller.

Regards,
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Alexandre Janniaux
Videolabs

On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 01:28:06PM +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Wayland is mostly unusable in VLC 3.0 for other reasons than inhibiting the screensaver. So I don't see the point in back-porting that.
>
> Le 27 janvier 2020 12:47:36 GMT+02:00, Alexandre Janniaux <ajanni at videolabs.io> a écrit :
> >Hi,
> >
> >The wayland inhibit module has been there since 2018 thanks to
> >Rémi, but never went to a 3.x release, which means that there
> >is no wayland inhibiter for Wayland compositors.
> >
> >The wayland protocol used is experimental and unstable, but
> >can be found on the project repository. [1]
> >
> >[1]
> >https://github.com/wayland-project/wayland-protocols/tree/master/unstable/idle-inhibit
> >
> >As an unstable protocol, I understand it never went to 3.x
> >branch before, but is supported by at least wlroots (sway)
> >and KDE.  It is not supported by GNOME though, which iirc
> >still uses DBus inhibiter.
> >
> >As there are reports of inhibiter not working on multiple
> >compositor using this feature, would it make sense to
> >backport this module in 3.x or is it too unstable to be
> >integrated and users should wait 4.0?
> >
> >Thanks for your input,
> >
> >Regards,
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> >Alexandre Janniaux
> >Videolabs
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