[mythtv-users] Screen lock kicks in during playback in KDE

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/18/2013 01:56 PM, Yianni Vidalis wrote:
> I'd like to ask if the following should be reported as a bug:
>
> On one frontend I use openSuSE TumbleWeed (kernel 3.10.7-23.g771dec3-desktop), and KDE (kdebase reports version 4.10.5-1.111.1).
>
> In KDE System Settings, Screen Settings -->  Screen Lock (I'm translating from Greek, so the titles might not be exact) the Simple Lock was selected with some timeout.
>
> When I watch a movie or tv, the screen locks while playback continues in the background.
>
> If I unselect the KDE screen lock and rely on good old DPMS, there is no problem.
>
> I searched the tickets and found http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/10625 , which was closed as an
> upstream bug. Is this the same case?

Yes, though current KDE has removed the feature where it took hints from 
the DPMS state, so it's unsupported, now, too.

Both KDE and GNOME have taken the Windows-style approach of "let's just 
make our own DBus-based API and force every single application in 
existence that wants to interact with the screensaver build in support 
for using DBus to speak our specific screensaver-control grammar and 
drop support for the Unix-like way of interaction".  So, since your 
screensaver program doesn't care to support a cross-screensaver 
approach, I recommend doing 2 things:

1) use xscreensaver, for now, on your MythTV frontend systems (if you 
really want a screensaver)
2) somehow figure out how to get freedesktop to accept 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29859 and 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26085#c6 and release a new 
version of xdg-utils and I'll put back the xdg-utils support with a 
version check to ensure users have the working version before we use it

Of course, since the Portland (name of project which includes xdg-utils) 
wiki page ( http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/ ) was hacked/deleted 
back on Oct 22, 2012***, and no one has done anything about it (even 
though it was reported on the mailing list on Nov 14, 2012), the project 
may be dead.  Note, though, that the wiki had been hacked /many/ other 
times before that--just far less destructively--so maybe it's only the 
wiki part that's dead (though they should really just take down the wiki 
if they don't want to support it).  Of course, the fact that xdg-utils 
1.1.0-rc1 was released on Jan 1, 2011 and there has been no release 
since then seems to indicate that the project actually is dead (or in a 
/very/ deep coma, at minimum).

Mike