Xfce Screensaver 0.1.3 Released

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After 3 weeks of dedicated development, the Xfce Screensaver 0.1.3, the first beta release, is now available! With better event handling, a significantly upgraded preferences dialog, and a tidier codebase, the new version is nearly ready for prime time. 🎉

What’s New?

Features

All available configuration options are now available in the Preferences dialog, boosting the easily accessible options from 4 to 13!
Idle time is now based on the X11 Screensaver plugin instead of the GNOME Session Manager.
Xfce Screensaver now respects the xdg-screensaver state, inhibiting the screensaver when using apps like Caffeine or watching a fullscreen video.
Screensaver and lock screen functionality can easily now be toggled separately.

General

All deprecated DBUS methods and signals have been removed from the documentation.
Documentation has been written and is available on the Xfce Docs site. Available docs include:

Preferences

Dropped unused configuration options [ 1, 2, 3]
Renamed all Xfconf properties for improved clarity and easier maintenance [ 1, 2]

Bug Fixes

Replaced the Help link with a link to the Xfce Docs (Xfce #14877)
Added /usr/lib and /usr/libexec as trusted engine paths, enabling local installs on Linux with access to existing screensavers (Xfce #14883)
Fixed screen blanking and locking on FreeBSD and OpenBSD (Xfce #14846)
Fixed lock screen crash on laptop lid-close events (GTK #1466)
Fixed daemon crash when scrolling through available themes
Improved window size resizing for smaller displays
Renamed included screensavers to avoid conflicts with MATE Screensaver
Reduced flicker rate when multiple keyboard layouts are available (still not fully fixed, but greatly improved)

Build Improvements

Silenced warning: ar: ‘u’ modifier ignored since ‘D’ is the default
Fixed warning: Target given more than once in the same rule

Code Quality

Applied cpplint fixes and added cpplint configuration file
Cleaned up unused variables, trailing spaces, and deprecated code
Glade templates were cleaned up and organized for easier maintenance

Translation Updates

Albanian, Basque, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Danish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Icelandic, Italian, Korean, Malay, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Turkish

Screenshots

Downloads

This is the first beta release of Xfce Screensaver. While still not recommended for production machines, this is a great time to test and report bugs so we can assemble an awesome stable release soon.

Source tarball ( md5, sha1, sha256)

Xubuntu users (18.04, 18.10, and 19.04) can grab the package from the Xubuntu QA Experimental PPA.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xubuntu-dev/experimental
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xfce4-screensaver

Remember also to remove or exit light-locker and start xfce4-screensaver (or log out and back in) and add support for xfce4-screensaver to the xflock4 script.

Thanks, and enjoy!