[mythtv] [PATCH] Mythgallery: Disable screensaver

[Neil Whelchel]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Adam Egger wrote:

> Great! But wouldn't it be better to have a global option to disable
> the screensaver while the frontend is running.

No, that is not the point. The frontend is always running on my machines,
that is all that they will ever run. In this case, the screensaver would
never work. (There is already a feature to disable/enable the screensaver
when mythtv is playing a video.)

>
> BTW, Is there a way to make a random slideshow with the whole picture
> directory structure? Would be great to see all the pix again I've made
> five years ago ;)

Yes, I submitted a patch to do this a few months ago. For some reason, it
was not applied.

>
> Adam
>
>
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:30:05 -0800 (PST), Neil Whelchel
> <koyama at firstlight.net> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 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.
> >
> > To solve this I made a minor modification to Mythgallery to disable the
> > screensaver while the slideshow is active and re-enable it when the
> > slideshow is stopped.
> >
> > -Neil Whelchel-
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-Neil Whelchel-
First Light Internet Services
760 366-0145
- We don't do Window$, that's what the janitor is for -

Bubble Memory, n.:
        A derogatory term, usually referring to a person's
intelligence.  See also "vacuum tube".