Comment 6 for bug 310351

Hello guys,

I think there is still a problem with the inhibition mechanism on KDE4 (and maybe any DE that uses the DBus interface). The call to the Inhibit method can't work because the calling process (qdbus or dbus-send) exits immediately.
Here's what the specification states:

        Name: Inhibit
        Args: DBUS_TYPE_STRING "application-name"
                        DBUS_TYPE_STRING "reason for inhibit"
        Returns: INT cookie
                        This is a random number used to identify the
                        request.
        Description: Request that saving the screen due to system
                        idleness be blocked until UnInhibit is called or the
                        calling process exits.

Found at:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2007-March/009187.html
(no idea at what point this reflects the actual implementation)

This kind of sucks, and the screensaver indeed activates itself as if no call to Inhibit were passed. (no matter what value I use as "application-name")
Using qdbusviewer and a small Qt program (processes that do not exit), I have been able to prevent the screensaver activation.

Sorry, I have no patch this time, I don't see any way to pass a call
from a Shell script without exiting :-(

Best regards and thanks again.