[mythtv-users] Mythtv screensaver behaviour
Jonatan Lindblad
mythtv at comhem.se
Fri Dec 25 23:38:17 UTC 2015
Den 2015-12-25 kl. 23:34, skrev Another Sillyname:
> Happy Holidays all!!
>
> I have been running myth for a while and have never got screensavers
> to work in a satisfactory way.
>
> I run fedora, some frontends have nvidia cards so run as vdpau, some
> use builtin Intel GPU and use vaapi.
>
> If I turn on screensaver and power management.....
>
> screensaver (just blank screen) after 15 minutes idle.......monitor
> goes into power save mode after 30.
>
> On all the frontends if I run VLC (configured same as above) and a
> video is running then the screensavers and power save mode do not kick
> in.....I don't have to do anything.
>
> On myth the screensavers/power save mode DO kick in so there has to be
> some activity every 14 minutes.
>
> What I ideally want is.....
>
> If there's a video running (either video or recording) then I want the
> screensaver/powersave to stay inactive.....but if a myth menu screen
> is up then screensaver to work as it would normally.
>
> There's loads of conflicting information about configuring x or
> xorg.conf....but frankly why can't the app behave as vlc does and
> require no use tinkering?
VLC is probably using DBus to control the screensaver and MythTV only
recently got the support to do that in the fixes/0.27 branch.
Which MythTV version are you using (i.e. run mythfrontend --version)?
--
Jonatan
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