[mythtv-users] HULU and screen blanking

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/13/2010 04:49 PM, Johnny Walker wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Johnny Walker wrote:
>    
>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>      
>>> On 04/13/2010 03:25 PM, Dave Day wrote:
>>>        
>>>> I have added the HULU Desktop menu item to myth and
>>>> it works fine except that I have been unsuccessful in stopping
>>>> the screen from blanking after about 10 minutes.
>>>>
>>>> I start Hulu Desktop from a shell script which
>>>> uses
>>>>
>>>> xset -dpms
>>>> xscreensaver-command --deactivate
>>>>          
>>> deactivate only stops the running screensaver (or resets the timeout).
>>>   You'd have to run that in a loop once every screensaver_timeout -
>>> a_few_seconds--or to prevent any potential issues, once every (
>>> screensaver_timeout / 2) - a_few_seconds , though that extra safety is
>>> basically unnecessary.
>>>
>>> xscreensaver-command -exit would work (but will also mean your screensaver
>>> is disabled until someone turns it back on, which might not work well even
>>> if you do that after hulu desktop exits).
>>>        
>> I actually solved this one. When you add the launch for huludesktop to
>> the menus - make it EXECTV instead of just EXEC.
>>      
> Whoops - I'm told this 'ties up' a recorder - as it's intended for
> launching programs that require a tuner.
>
> There is work underway on the screensaver support in mythtv. (shameless plug)
>    

Speaking of which, using the solution his new screensaver support uses 
inside your Hulu desktop start script would allow basically the kind of 
use you want.  See 
http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-utils-1.0beta3/xdg-screensaver.html 
and, specifically, the suspend command.  Order of calls would have to 
change (as you'd have to start Hulu desktop and /then/ call 
xdg-screensaver suspend .  Implementation is left as an exercise for the 
reader.  :)

Mike