/* timers.c --- detecting when the user is idle, and other timer-related tasks.
- * xscreensaver, Copyright (c) 1991-2004 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>
+ * xscreensaver, Copyright (c) 1991-2008 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>
*
* Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
* documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that
if (si->cycle_id) abort (); /* no cycle timer when inactive */
si->last_activity_time = time ((time_t *) 0);
+
+ /* This will (hopefully, supposedly) tell the server to re-set its
+ DPMS timer. Without this, the -deactivate clientmessage would
+ prevent xscreensaver from blanking, but would not prevent the
+ monitor from powering down. */
+#if 0
+ /* #### With some servers, this causes the screen to flicker every
+ time a key is pressed! Ok, I surrender. I give up on ever
+ having DPMS work properly.
+ */
+ XForceScreenSaver (si->dpy, ScreenSaverReset);
+
+ /* And if the monitor is already powered off, turn it on.
+ You'd think the above would do that, but apparently not? */
+ monitor_power_on (si);
+#endif
+
}
f = fopen (PROC_INTERRUPTS, "r");
if (!f)
- return False;
+ {
+ if (why) *why = "does not exist";
+ return False;
+ }
fclose (f);
return True;