[mythtv-users] Potential issues with Qt 5.7.1?

[Tom Dexter]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 5:36 AM, Stuart Auchterlonie
<stuarta at squashedfrog.net> wrote:
> On 21/12/16 22:33, Tom Dexter wrote:
>> Ahh...got it. Thanks for the clarification! I have noticed one issue
>> on some rare cases where the frontend has crashed. I have my frontend
>> login configured (as others do in Gentoo sometimes) to respawn via
>> inittab. Sometimes after a crash, xscreensaver will not exit screen
>> saver mode as a result of the LIRC remote...just via the keyboard. Is
>> that related to the issue you're referring to or does that sound like
>> something else?
>>
>
> Does sound similiar. IIRC the way the xscreensaver code works is it
> just runs xscreensaver to disable and enable the screensaver, and also
> uses it to "poke" the screensaver. If the crash occurs after the disable
> then the screensaver remains disabled.
>
> I ended up implementing it because the other old way was using the
> xdpms calls, and that had stopped working from about Fedora 23. The code
> thought it had worked, but it never inhibited the screensaver.
>
> It's part of my ongoing desire to make mythtv "just work" when it's
> installed.
>
> Regards
> Stuart

Thanks for the clarification! I'm almost sure I've never seen that
behavior except after a (rare) crash.

Tom