[mythtv-users] screensaver issues

[brad at bradandkim.net]

> brad at bradandkim.net pí¹e v Èt 20. 12. 2007 v 10:31 -0600:
>> >
>> > Things are starting to make sense to me now on this.  I will give it
>> > another shot when I can.  Thanks for the help Petr.
>> >
>> > Brad
>>
>> So I tried xscreensaver again last night.  I stopped mythfrontend, ran
>> 'xscreensaver -nosplash&' and restarted mythfronted.  I set xscreensaver
>> to one minute (I have the start of some burn in so I am paranoid).  As
>> expected, after one minute left sitting on the menu, the screensaver
>> kicked in.  To my surprise, hitting a button on the remote deactivated
>> it.
>>  So I started watcing a recorded show and the problems crept up.  On a
>> not
>> completely regular interval the screen would start to fade away and the
>> video would pause.  The screensaver was trying to kick in.  Sometimes it
>> would be stopped (with no intervention by me) and return to the video,
>> but
>> sometimes it would not and the screensaver would come on.  The remote
>> still deactivated it, but it was very annoying.  It seemed the more I
>> watched the more frequent and regular it became.  I guess I am getting
>> closer, but not there yet.  Any thoughts?  Should I have restarted the
>> backend as well?
>
> Nope. I think know exactly what you've run into. The timer that runs
> inside of Myth and keeps the xscreensaver informed about the video
> replay activity is run with 60 second period. So if you set your
> screensaver's time of inactivity to 2 minutes or more then everything
> works perfectly but with 1 minute setting it's simply random chance.
>
> I have submitted a patch setting this timer to 50 seconds (because I run
> with 1 minute screen saving as well) but they didn't accept it - they
> probably couldn't imagine that someone would have 1 minute inactivity
> timeout.
>
> Please try to set it to 2 minutes and let me know if it helped. If yes
> then I'd try again to convince them about the patch.
>
> Petr
>

That was exactly it.  I set the time on xscreensaver to 2 minutes and all
my problems have disapeared.  Thanks a lot to Petr and everyone for
helping resolve this.

Brad