Comment 7 for bug 306584

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Savvas Radevic (medigeek) wrote : Re: [Bug 306584] Re: timekpr keeps counting time when screen locked or user is switched

hm.. ok, I checked about xfce, it seems that if favours xscreensaver,
but xubuntu (xubuntu-desktop) depends on gnome-screensaver.

$ apt-cache rdepends gnome-screensaver
gnome-screensaver
Reverse Depends:
  xubuntu-desktop
  xscreensaver-gl-extra
  xfce4-utils

If a user installs xfce4 though, they will install xfce4-utils which
favours xscreensaver:
$ apt-cache show xfce4-utils
Package: xfce4-utils
Recommends: xfwm4, xfce4-panel, thunar, xscreensaver | xlockmore |
xlockmore-gl | gnome-screensaver, dbus-x11, xinput, xdg-user-dirs

We could recommend the use of gnome-screensaver in timekpr though with
a warning for xfce users.
All in all, it seems that in the future, timekpr will have to have 3
different packages to resolve all these dependencies correctly:
timekpr-client-kde, timekpr-client-xfce and timekpr-client-gnome.

But for now, I'll try and read about python dbus server/client, let's
hope I can produce something good. :)