[mythtv-users] Ubuntu-mythtv-frontend turns off the screen

[Joacim J]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Joacim J <jocke4news at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Brad DerManouelian <
> myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
>
>> On Oct 26, 2008, at 12:50 PM, Nick Morrott wrote:
>>
>> > On 26/10/2008, Joacim J <jocke4news at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> I have started to use the package "ubuntu-mythtv-frontend" and it
>> >> works very
>> >> smooth but have one small issue. When the frontend is idle (just
>> >> showing the
>> >> menus) the screen are turned off. How can I adjust that?
>> >
>> > You probably want to disable DPMS for your display and your X
>> > screensaver using xset.
>>
>> Oh, screensaver stuff. Since you're running ubuntu, you need to
>> uninstall gnome-screensaver and install xscreensaver instead. That's
>> the one MythTV works with.
>>
>> -Brad
>>
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>
> Thanks!
>
> Sorry for being a bit unclear...but it can very well be the screensaver
> stuff. I will test tomorrow.
>

Sorry but it didn't work.
Could it be the power management? That it shuts off the screen after a
certain time?
Since the mythtv user gets a special account I don't have a normal desktop
and not sure now to change it via command.

Any idea?

-- 
Regards
Joacim
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