[mythtv-users] mythtv, screensavers and xine
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Nov 22 22:19:03 UTC 2006
On 11/22/2006 05:13 PM, Jan Vilhuber wrote:
> I noticed the other day something about myth (I'm running svn -fixes)
> supports xscreensaver and thought that was really cool. Installed it,
> started it automatically when the window manager comes up, and myth
> seems to do the right thing.
>
> Then I proceeded to fire up a movie (DVD iso), for which I use xine,
> and after a while, the screensaver came on!
>
> I've been poking around a bit, and can't seem to see anywhere within
> xine where I can tell it to turn off the screensaver.
>
> Other than creating a shell-script (that calls xscreensaver-command -
> stop and then xine, then xscreensaver-command start when it's done),
> is there another way to disable the screensaver?
>
> I'm a bit surprised that xine doesn't handle this directly, or that
> mythtv doesn't disable the screensaver, regardless whether the
> internal or some external movie player is used...
Set experience level to "Master of the Known Universe" and you'll see
it. Or, edit ~/.xine/config:
# Screensaver reset interval (s)
# numeric, default: 10
#gui.screensaver_timeout:10
Uncomment the last line and set an appropriate timeout (i.e. if your
screensaver is set to come on in 5 minutes, set it to 4).
Mike
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