[mythtv-users] Mythtv screensaver behaviour

[Another Sillyname]

Fixes/0.27
v0.27.5-28-g3682a9a

It's the latest build from the rpmfusion repos.



On 25 December 2015 at 23:38, Jonatan Lindblad <mythtv at comhem.se> wrote:
> 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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