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		QuercusMax 12 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in... Wayland still doesn't support screensavers last I checked, which is wild to me. Truly bizarre that such longstanding feature is just absent.

jml7c5 12 days ago [–]

It's a matter of designing and proprosing a protocol for it. X11's screensaver support was also a protocol extension.

There probably hasn't been much interest in it because screens can easily be powered off remotely, which was not the case in 1992.

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