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Re: Screen blanker & Mouse



On Monday 2008 November 24 12:32, Manon Metten wrote:
> Whenever I move my mouse, the screen wakes up from either blanking
> or dpms mode. I would like to turn that off and have the screen wake up
> only when I hit the keyboard.

Unfortunately, this isn't really easy.  It would probably take a number of 
source-code level changes to X.org.

> Can anyone please tell me if this is possible at all, and how to achive it.

The right way do do it would probably be to add another Option to the 
InputDevice section, then test this option and inhibit wake events -- in fact 
swallow all input from the device if the DPMS has switched on -- and allow 
clients (like the client that locks the X session) to filter the events based 
on that option.

I'm not an expert on these things -- there might already be such as option.
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