[mythtv-users] gnome-screensaver-command --poke workaround

[Kevin Ross]

On 11/10/2010 08:00 AM, Thaler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the --poke function has been removed from the
> gnome-screensaver-command. Funny, this options is still in the help
> output of the program. But anyway, I wrote a program that catches the
> --poke calls and runs the gnome-screensaver-command with -i to stop
> the screensaver to come up.
>
> See http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/8639#comment:8 for more details
> about this "feature".
>
> The program can be found at http://linux.thaj.net63.net/gsc-fake/
>
> Hope it is useful for someone,
> ... thaler.

Nice workaround.

My workaround was to remove gnome-screensaver from my gnome session, and 
instead use xscreensaver.  Disabling the xscreensaver from within MythTV 
still works. :)