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Bug 3115

Summary:	Using game controller does not prevent screensaver
Product:	TDE	Reporter:	Jan Stolarek <jwstolarek>
Component:	other (any)	Assignee:	Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugwatch, jwstolarek
Priority:	P5
Version:	R14.0.x [Trinity]
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux
Compiler Version:		TDE Version String:
Application Version:		Application Name:

Description Jan Stolarek 2020-05-26 11:17:05 CDT

I often find that using a game controller when playing a game does not count as user activity and so the TDE screensaver runs in a middle of a game, forcing me to move a mouse or press a keyboard button. Does not seem to happen always though. Definitely happened to me with Wine and RetroArch.

Comment 1 Jan Stolarek 2020-08-03 12:53:13 CDT

After some research (since this is an annoying bug for me) it turns out that this is not a problem of just TDE. The problem is X server is completely unaware of game controllers (`xinput --list` doesn't list any even if connected) and the game libraries communicate directly with device nodes in /dev. A workaround is to use a program `caffeine` [1] which is designed specifically to solve this particular issue. I'm leaving this to devs discretion whether to keep this bug report open.

[1] https://launchpad.net/caffeine

Comment 2 Jan Stolarek 2020-08-03 13:47:51 CDT

Also, it is possible to make XOrg aware of the joystick input by installing the xserver-xorg-input-joystick package. On my machine this causes a bunch of other issues and I'm not sure whether this package should be used when a mouse is present (see package documentation). Anyway, I am leaning towards closing this bug as not related to TDE.