Comment 8 for bug 1462186

@rrt, thanks, but I'm sure that scenario would work just fine and then they would refer me to report a bug against mate-screensaver who would then just suggest that I use the mate inhibit panel applet instead. Which works fine, but is not an indicator like yours and is essentially unthemeable (it sticks out like a sore thumb with my theme).

jorgicio's patch for 2.8.3 does exactly what I need it to so my issue is resolved. I'll leave y'all to do with that info what you will (I totally get why you're going the xdg-utils route moving forward).