Hi Alex, On 11 October 2017 at 12:22, Alex Ivanov <gnidorah@xxxxx> wrote: > On 11.10.2017 13:13, Daniel Stone wrote: >> If people are doing fancy new compositors without DPMS support, then I >> recommend they use an existing compositor base, such as libweston >> (others are also available) which actually implement DPMS. For >> Electron apps, there are a number of idle-inhibition options available >> for X11, and also for Wayland when that support lands in Electron. >> Unfortunately I don't think there is any way to just route around the >> compositor as this patch does. > > libweston is still too tied to Weston at this moment, and other > libraries are still underway. > > Your phrase is a great marker of how much complexity and > trickery for user is added into display power management > in comparison to power management of other components. Unfortunately it is indeed quite complex, but this approach doesn't fundamentally remove complexity, but instead _add_ it. I'd much rather fix these problems at the source - add idle-inhibition or DPMS support where required to compositors and clients - than try to route around it. Cheers, Daniel _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
