[mythtv-users] MythTV review from a long-time TiVo user
Ben Giddings
bg-mythtv at infofiend.com
Fri Mar 4 20:09:38 UTC 2005
Donavan Stanley wrote:
>>>Myth will allow your existing screensaver to kick in as needed,
>>>provided you have one of course.
>>
>>This doesn't appear to be entirely accurate to me. I believe that Myth
>>only supports DPMS. If you turn on screensavers in KDE or use
>>xscreensaver, the screensaver will kick in regardless of whether you are
>>watching a show or not. I tried this again last night just to be sure and
>>it started up 10 mintutes into our TV show.
>
> I've just done a quick instrumentation of the code and verified that
> the calls are being made to disable/enable the screensaver properly as
> well as turn off dpms. Why they're not working for all users, I'm not
> sure and right now I'm too tired to dig into it.
Just as a data point, using KDE's screensaver, it doesn't seem to kick
in when I'm using Myth, but I can't get it to go away using the remote
(using LIRC native in Myth). If I hit a keyboard key though, it does
the right thing.
Ben
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