Bug#879499: higan: please inhibit screensaver when emulation is active

[Fabian Greffrath]

Package: higan
Version: 105-1
Severity: normal

Hi there,

recently, I was playing some SNES ROMs with my kids using higan and a
USB gamepad. During this, it happened several times that the
screensaver would kick in and lock the screen, interrupting our game
rather abruptly (gnome-shell 3.26.1-2).

I guess this is because gamepad buttons are not counted as
"interaction with the desktop", so I guess it's up to higan itself to
inhibit the screensaver when the emulation is active. I am sure there
is a dbus message or similar for this?

Thanks,

 - Fabian


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages higan depends on:
ii  libao4                 1.2.2-1
ii  libasound2             1.1.3-5
ii  libatk1.0-0            2.26.0-2
ii  libc6                  2.24-17
ii  libcairo2              1.14.10-1
ii  libfontconfig1         2.12.3-0.2
ii  libfreetype6           2.8-0.2
ii  libgcc1                1:7.2.0-8
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0     2.36.11-1
ii  libgl1                 0.2.999+git20170802-5
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.54.1-1
ii  libgomp1               7.2.0-8
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.24.31-2
ii  libgtksourceview2.0-0  2.10.5-3
ii  libopenal1             1:1.17.2-4+b2
ii  libpango-1.0-0         1.40.12-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0    1.40.12-1
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0      1.40.12-1
ii  libpulse0              11.1-1
ii  libsdl1.2debian        1.2.15+dfsg2-0.1
ii  libstdc++6             7.2.0-8
ii  libudev1               235-2
ii  libx11-6               2:1.6.4-3
ii  libxext6               2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii  libxv1                 2:1.0.11-1

higan recommends no packages.

higan suggests no packages.

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