App stops screensaver from activiating on MacOS - Githubissues

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App stops screensaver from activiating on MacOS #4243

Open palmerj opened 1 year ago

palmerj commented 1 year ago

Describe the bug

On MacOS the app stops the OS from running it's screensaver. Please implement something like this in dosbox-x to remove this limitation https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging/pull/717/files

Workaround for now is to run dosbox-x with SDL_VIDEO_ALLOW_SCREENSAVER=1 /Applications/dosbox-x.app/Contents/MacOS/dosbox-x &

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

Ensure screensaver is set to run in MacOS settings
Run dosbox-x
Check activity monitor and check dosbox-x process in energy tab. It reports Preventing Sleep as Yes

Expected behavior

Screensaver should work when running dosbox-x.

What operating system(s) this bug have occurred on?

MacOS 13.1

What version(s) of DOSBox-X have this bug?

DOSBox-X 2023.03.31

Used configuration

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Output log

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Additional information

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joncampbell123 commented 1 year ago

Good idea. Knowing the SDL library it made sense for them to do that, but yes, perhaps let's give the option to allow screensaver.