[mythtv-users] Screensaver problems

[Don]

On 12/14/2014 05:51 PM, Mike B wrote:

>   That works great on live tv, but on recordings, the screensaver
> kicks in while the show is playing.
>
> What am I doing wrong?

>>Don't do any xset s commands, set up your X server to disable the X
>>server's blanking screensaver--generally by including the line:
>>
>>     Option     "BlankTime"    "0"
>>
>>in your xorg.conf under Section "ServerFlags" or by running xset s off
>>at server (or mythfrontend) startup--and run xscreensaver (the actual
>>xscreensaver program, from http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/ ).

Thanks for pointing this out, the same problem was besetting my laptop,
and using 'xset s off' never stopped the blanking. On debian wheezy, when
 I checked for what was in xorg.conf, there was no such file ; seems the
xserver was able to resolve what to do at init automagically (seen that before,
musings within xorg.conf.d) ~~ if that is the working case, you only need an
xorg.conf that specifies the ServerFlags ; if you need to create the file, this
will do so;


sudo cat > /etc/X11/xorg,conf << "EOF"
# Begin  /etc/X11/xorg,conf

Section "ServerFlags"
Option     "BlankTime"    "0"
EndSection

# End /etc/X11/xorg,conf
EOF


...just why the xset command doesn't seem to 'stick' is a mystery to me, as
the output from 'xset q' (run after 'xset s off') indicates blanking is off...

Cheers