[mythtv] [PATCH] Mythgallery: Disable screensaver

[Bob Cottingham]

Neil Whelchel wrote:

>On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Bob Cottingham wrote:
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>>Neil Whelchel said:
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>>>I use Myth with both plasma and projection monitors, and I am very
>>>cautious about burn-in so I keep my screensaver set to 2 minutes or less.
>>>This creates a major problem while I am using the slideshow feature of
>>>Mythgallery.
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>>I recall that you had stated some time ago that you were working on a
>>screensaver plugin for mythtv.  I don't recall hearing anything after
>>that.  Have you made any progress on this?  My understanding is that at
>>the moment mythtv only supports DPMS and not xscreensaver.  I would like
>>to be able to have a slideshow of mythgallery images displayed for a
>>screensaver using either xscreensaver or mythgallery, however I don't
>>believe we currently have this capability.  Am I wrong or is anyone
>>working on this feature?
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>>Thanks,
>>Bob C
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>At the moment, I added a "Global slideshow" (randomly display all images)
>feature to mythgallery. This gets called when idle time exceeds a preset
>limit, and the screensaver has not been disabled (within mythtv). Some
>time ago, I wrote in some hooks to run modules from xscreensaver (or any
>program that can take over a window and display something), but I never
>used it much. Later I ended up writing a module to play a slideshow.. So,
>I dumped that and went to simply using mythgallery for this. (Why do it
>twice?)
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What do I need to do to use mythgallery as a screensaver for mythtv?

Thanks,
Bob C