[mythtv-users] Looking for opinions on implementing screensaver capability

[Jarod C. Wilson]

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On Monday 22 December 2003 12:25, Alan Snyder wrote:
> I'm looking at ways to implement screen blanking
> capability within myth, basically so that a screen
> left at a menu will blank to save the CRT or the LCD
> lamp.  Right now I'm doing it while running Knoppmyth
> from CD with a shell script that periodically checks
> on how much CPU mythfrontend is using (could easily be
> extended to add mplayer) and calls xset appropriately,
> but that's really a kludge.
[...snip...]
> Any opinions?  If I can get our kitchen setup
> transitioned from Knoppmyth to HD I want to find time
> to work on this over "winter break."

You might want to contact cliff.draper at sun.com, who wrote this sometime last 
week:

I made some changes to my 0.12 system and currently have screen saver
support.  It works great.  Screen savers are suspended while playing
video, but while paused or in a menu, a screen saver may become
active.  I have it working with the 3 screen savers that I'm familiar
with: basic X screen blanking, DPMS, and xscreensaver.  The latter
looks great and is what I'm primarily using (I have it setup to go
thru 20 minutes of pretty screen savers and then do a DPMS screen
off).  DPMS is likely what you want, where you can suspend the monitor
and/or turn it off.

I've been meaning to find time to port my changes to the current CVS
version, and then send in a diff.  Let me know if you're interested in
just the 0.12 diff.

regards,
Cliff Draper    Sun Microsystems, Forte Tools
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