[mythtv-users] viewer falls asleep with the EPG open - plasma burn in concerns

[Johnny Walker]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Johnny Walker <johnnyjboss at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Michael T. Dean
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>> On 03/30/2010 02:49 PM, Johnny Walker wrote:
>>>
>>> That is interesting since I just installed xdg-utils on my dev laptop
>>> and 'xdg-screensaver activate' is not invoking my screensaver either
>>> in 9.10. I wonder if there's a bug.
>>>
>>
>> Also, note that xdg-screensaver only supports those screensaver programs for
>> which someone has submitted supported code.  I wouldn't be surprised if the
>> one you're trying to use isn't supported, yet.
>>
>> Mike
>
> So far I've been trying to use antspotlight which I thought was part
> of gnome-screensaver and managed through the xfce control panel.
>
> The only bug I have found (so far) is related to /not/ being able to
> poke the gnome-screensaver. I've yet to locate a bug on not being able
> to start it.
>
I seem to be on the right trail now...
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538694

I can confirm that my output of gnome-power-manager --verbose shows me this:

- DBUS error: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SessionManager':
no such name

as well as:

- no gnome-session

Is it possible that the gnome-screensaver is not valid in an xfce session?

-Johnny