[mythtv-users] mythfrontend: disabling screensaver & dpms while watching a show
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Sep 1 06:45:26 UTC 2010
On 08/31/2010 06:38 PM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 00:10 +0200, Andreas Witte wrote:
>> When i watch a show, dpms and (in my case) xcreensaver isnt disabled
>> anymore.
> I find that when I first start watching a recording, xscreensaver will
> kick on after my "idle time" (60 secs. it's on a plasma screen) and
> then I can hit any key on the remote (i.e. 'i') and the screensaver will
> turn off again and will remain off until I pause myth playback and then
> resume it, after which, 60 seconds later, the screen saver kicks on
> until I hit another key again (typically 'i') until another pause or
> another show is started.
>
> So that is, I get one "idle" cycle of xscreensaver after either starting
> a recording playback or pausing and resuming during playback, but only
> one single idle cycle.
MythTV requires a screensaver timeout of 2 minutes or more for proper
disabling. (You're welcome to keep using it the way you do, but by
changing the timeout to 2 minutes, instead of 1 minute, it would work
properly without the screensaving interruptions in playback.)
See http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-commits/2010-February/063352.html
Note, though, that xdg-screensaver was a no-go, since KDE and GNOME
don't properly support it. And, to make matters worse, /both/ KDE and
GNOME have bugs in their current versions that cause their own custom
solutions to fail in some circumstances. (Yes, as I'm sure you can
tell, I'm actually very upset that KDE and GNOME developers refuse to
see the benefit in a single solution designed to control any and all
screensavers on all systems--and, no, D-Bus is not that single solution.)
Mike
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