[mythtv] [PATCH] Mythgallery: Disable screensaver

Bob Cottingham bob at bobnvic.com
Tue Jan 25 17:24:30 EST 2005


Neil Whelchel said:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Bob Cottingham wrote:
>> Neil Whelchel said:
>>> 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.
>>>
>> 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?
>>
> 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?)

It looks as though your previously submitted patch may have simply been
overlooked at the time, since I didn't see any responses to it back in
October.  Would you mind updating it to current cvs and resubmitting?  I
would be interested in seeing this functionality in mythtv.

Thanks,
Bob C



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