Comment 45 for bug 128357

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Steffen Möller (moeller-debian) wrote : Re: [Bug 128357] Re: boinc does not idle with mouse movement

On 04/20/2011 12:08 AM, Christian Lins wrote:
> Please note that the latest upstream patch for this issue requires special buildparameters (--with-xss or something) which links the binary agains libxss (X screen saver idle detection).
> AFAIK this is not done in Debian because they don't want a command line client depending on a X library (a system without GUI does not suffer from this issue though). A solution to this would be to deliver a special "boinc" binary with the boinc-manager package.

Hm. With X on about every machine, I could live with that change. A problem with any such setup is most certainly independent from
the actual distribution. Is anyone on the Ubuntu side unhappy about trying a --with-xss? I am about to work on a package for
6.13.10, which could then just have it.

Steffen