[mythtv-users] mythtv, screensavers and xine

[Michael T. Dean]

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