[mythtv-users] Forcing the backend to acpi suspend with a frontend connected

[Thomas Boehm]

Thomas Boehm wrote:
> Marc MERLIN wrote:
>> It's obviously not my favourite because I have to kill mythfrontend which
>> could be paused in a middle of a show, and therefore when I resume, I lose
>> where I used to be, but it's better than nothing.
> 
> Doesn't the frontend poke the screensaver every 50 seconds while it's
> playing something to prevent it from getting activated? This is what I
> read somewhere.

You we're right, the screensaver kicks in when you pause a show. Is this
a bug or a feature? I would have expected it to behave the same way as
if you would watch something...