[mythtv-users] Disable screensaver in Fedora 15

[Jim Morton]

On 6/13/2011 1:54 PM, kanetse at gmail.com wrote:
> Recently upgraded from Fedora 12 to Fedora 15.  My MythTV-0.24.1 is
> from atprms.  The machine is a combined master backend/frontend.
>
> Under F12, I always left the machine running, and when people want to
> watch TV, they grab the Harmony and select "Watch MythTV".  After the
> Harmony sets all the inputs, the main MythTV menu would be displayed.
>
> The problem is that under F15, there is a new X Window manager.  When
> people pick up the Harmony and flip on the TV, they see a black screen
> with the mythtv username in the top-right corner.  They have to press
> a key on the physical keyboard in order for the MythTV menu to show
> up.  Pressing any button on the Harmony doesn't work.  Is there anyway
> to turn this feature off?
>
> I tried to disable screen blanking, but there is no option to turn it
> off, you can only set it to "1 hour" as the highest value.  For me, I
> don't need Linux-side screen saving/screen blanking, since people just
> turn off the TV when they're done with it.
Check to see if it can be set to zero to disable it.

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  Jim Morton