[mythtv-users] Mythtv screensaver behaviour

Jonatan Lindblad mythtv at comhem.se
Sat Dec 26 16:49:18 UTC 2015



Den 2015-12-26 kl. 01:15, skrev Another Sillyname:
> On 25 December 2015 at 23:38, Jonatan Lindblad <mythtv at comhem.se> wrote:
>> Den 2015-12-25 kl. 23:34, skrev Another Sillyname:
>>> Happy Holidays all!!
>>>
>>> I have been running myth for a while and have never got screensavers
>>> to work in a satisfactory way.
>>>
>>> I run fedora, some frontends have nvidia cards so run as vdpau, some
>>> use builtin Intel GPU and use vaapi.
>>>
>>> If I turn on screensaver and power management.....
>>>
>>> screensaver (just blank screen) after 15 minutes idle.......monitor
>>> goes into power save mode after 30.
>>>
>>> On all the frontends if I run VLC (configured same as above) and a
>>> video is running then the screensavers and power save mode do not kick
>>> in.....I don't have to do anything.
>>>
>>> On myth the screensavers/power save mode DO kick in so there has to be
>>> some activity every 14 minutes.
>>>
>>> What I ideally want is.....
>>>
>>> If there's a video running (either video or recording) then I want the
>>> screensaver/powersave to stay inactive.....but if a myth menu screen
>>> is up then screensaver to work as it would normally.
>>>
>>> There's loads of conflicting information about configuring x or
>>> xorg.conf....but frankly why can't the app behave as vlc does and
>>> require no use tinkering?
>>
>> VLC is probably using DBus to control the screensaver and MythTV only
>> recently got the support to do that in the fixes/0.27 branch.
>
> Which MythTV version are you using (i.e. run mythfrontend --version)?
>
> Fixes/0.27
> v0.27.5-28-g3682a9a
> 
> It's the latest build from the rpmfusion repos.

I fixed it for you this time but please use bottom posting in the future.

The version is new enough, but DBus might not be enabled in the build.
This information is also included in the output from mythfrontend
--version.  It should contain using_qtdbus if it is enabled.

-- 
Jonatan


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