[mythtv-users] HULU and screen blanking

[Johnny Walker]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> 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

I can't help myself:

After you lauch HuluDesktop you can query xwininfo to get the
xwindowid as follows:

user at host%: xwininfo -name "Hulu Desktop" |grep id\:|cut -d' ' -f4

this can sent to xdg-screensaver to suspend the screensaver.

That's if you have xdg-utils installed.

-JohnnyJboss