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> I hate to keep bumping my own thread, but I'm at a loss here. Doesn't<br>
> anyone have their machines set to suspend automatically when idle? I have<br>
> been looking everywhere and I can't figure out any way to prevent it from<br>
> sleeping while I'm watching video. I suspect that I'm simply using the<br>
> wrong seach terms, but I have tried everything I can think of.<br>
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</div>I use mythbuntu 10.04 frontends and they sleep and unsleep perfectly.<br>
At my parents, I installed a mythbuntu 11.10 frontend and it sleeps<br>
only when I am not watching a video but it eventually gets into a deep<br>
sleep where the screen never wakes up requiring me to power-cycle the<br>
box. On my ubuntu 12.04 laptop running unity, the screensaver will<br>
kick in when I am watching videos.<br>
<br>
My approach is to stick to 10.04 for myth frontends since it has been<br>
the best release for me so far. If you are stuck with 12.04 though,<br>
you might want to try the mythbuntu forums that are at<br>
<a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=301" target="_blank">http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=301</a><br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>How are your 10.04 and 11.10 machines configured to sleep. I know that mythtv will pause the idle timer on Xscreensaver, but xscreensaver can't make my machine actually go to sleep, just the display.</div>
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