[mythtv-users] Help me disable screen blanking in FC7

[Bruce Taber]

David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Oct 11, 2007, at 6:26 PM, Jason McMillon wrote:
>
>   
>> On 10/10/07, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
>>     
>>> On Oct 10, 2007, at 12:47 AM, James Fidell wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Jason McMillon wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>>> Thanks for the suggestion...
>>>>>> The following seems to be working for me:
>>>>>> /usr/bin/xset s off
>>>>>> /usr/bin/xset -dpms
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think when I installed xinetd it overwrote my default settings,
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> for some reason
>>>>>> my perform on login script isn't working.  I am going to drop the
>>>>>> above in my rc.local file and see if works on reboots.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for the help!!
>>>>>> Jason
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Well, neither the rc.local or the above recommendation worked.  The
>>>>> only thing that works is:
>>>>> /usr/bin/xset s off
>>>>> /usr/bin/xset -dpms
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas how to correct.  I am fairly sure it's xinetd doing this.
>>>>> My start up script is located in /home/mythtv/.kde/Autostart/ and
>>>>> includes the above but does not seem to work...
>>>>>           
>>>> rc.local isn't likely to work in this case as it gets executed  
>>>> outside
>>>> the X environment.  I *believe* though, that starting up the window
>>>> manager (kde/gnome/whatever) turning off the screensaver should  
>>>> be the
>>>> equivalent of "xset s off".
>>>>         
>>> Or put the commands in either /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession or /etc/X11/
>>> xinit/xinitrc, depending on whether you're using a graphical login or
>>> booting in text mode and running 'startx'.
>>>
>>>
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>> I appended
>> /usr/bin/xset s off
>> /usr/bin/xset -dpms
>>
>> to both Xsession and xinitrc without any success.
>>     
>
> Just appending them may not work.  The way X startup works is the  
> last program to run is the window manager -- which is *not*  
> backgrounded, so the xinit script process stops at that point until  
> the window manager is exited.  X exits when the script exits.  For  
> that reason, anything you append to the script *after* the window  
> manager won't get run until you exit!  You want to find where in the  
> script the window manager is being started, and put the xset commands  
> before it.
>
>   
>> Any other ideas?
>>     
>
>   
How about putting these in the Section "ServerLayout" of your xorg.conf 
file?
        Option         "BlankTime" "1"
        Option         "StandbyTime" "0"
        Option         "SuspendTime" "0"
        Option         "OffTime" "0"

This is what I use on the main frontend connected to a TV. These are set 
to cause the video card to change to a black screen after one minute 
whenever mythtv is on a menu. Pressing any key on the remote causes the 
menu to redisplay. MythTV overrides that behavior when watching live TV 
or a recording. A BlankTime "0" should cause the screen to never blank. 
I thought I saw that information in the mail list previously.

> What window manager are you using?  Some of them have a mechanism for  
> specifying X clients to run on startup.  You could also add those  
> commands to whatever script you're using to launch mythfrontend, or  
> write a wrapper script that executes them and call that instead of  
> running mythfrontend directly.
>
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