inhibit screensaver from midi controller

[Daniel Schürmann]

The screen saver is appears when you controlling Mixxx with Midi Messages.
This was noticed on Ubuntu Precise using Cinnamon Desktop
We should consider to deal with it.

[RJ Skerry-Ryan (rryan)]

Would be a nice polish bug for 1.12. Any takers?

[RJ Skerry-Ryan (rryan)]

I would also say Mixxx should always inhibit the screen saver since even mixing without a MIDI controller you probably don't want the screen saver taking over when you are just waiting for the end of the song to take your next action.

[Sourav Singh (ssouravsingh12)]

I am interested in working on the bug. How do I start?

[Daniel Schürmann (daschuer)]

Thank you for offering your work!

You have to find out how to inhibit the screensaver on your system.
Than you should add a preference option to control the behavior of Mixxx.

Here is the relevant code of VLC and others:

https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/fbaa27ae2d7fcf5ccee7f0ca424ec0cc5bf01f4c/modules/video_output/win32/events.c#L168

https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/fbaa27ae2d7fcf5ccee7f0ca424ec0cc5bf01f4c/modules/gui/macosx/VLCInputManager.m#L299

https://github.com/GNOME/totem/blob/0c18deceed780e5ca13ba2b97446d81d70cfbec6/src/plugins/screensaver/totem-screensaver.c#L76

https://github.com/awjackson/bsnes-classic/blob/038e2e051ffc8abe7c56a3bf27e3016c433ee563/bsnes/ui-qt/platform/platform_x.cpp

The preference option can be placed here:
https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/blob/master/src/preferences/dialog/dlgprefcontrols.cpp

A good place to read is this:
http://www.mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/bugfix_workflow

[JosepMa (josepma)]

Sourav, did you start working on this?

If you didn't, I am taking over the bug, using the information provided by Daniel, which seems to be almost all that is needed.

[JosepMa (josepma)]

https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/pull/1229

[Swiftb0y (swiftb0y)]

Mixxx now uses GitHub for bug tracking. This bug has been migrated to:
https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/issues/7166