[mythtv-users] mythtv, screensavers and xine

Jan Vilhuber jan at vilhuber.com
Wed Nov 22 23:54:03 UTC 2006


Excellent. Thanks!
jan

On Nov 22, 2006, at 2:19 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:

> On 11/22/2006 05:13 PM, Jan Vilhuber wrote:
>> I noticed the other day something about myth (I'm running svn -fixes)
>> supports xscreensaver and thought that was really cool. Installed it,
>> started it automatically when the window manager comes up, and myth
>> seems to do the right thing.
>>
>> Then I proceeded to fire up a movie (DVD iso), for which I use xine,
>> and after a while, the screensaver came on!
>>
>> I've been poking around a bit, and can't seem to see anywhere within
>> xine where I can tell it to turn off the screensaver.
>>
>> Other than creating a shell-script (that calls xscreensaver-command -
>> stop and then xine, then xscreensaver-command start when it's done),
>> is there another way to disable the screensaver?
>>
>> I'm a bit surprised that xine doesn't handle this directly, or that
>> mythtv doesn't disable the screensaver, regardless whether the
>> internal or some external movie player is used...
>
> Set experience level to "Master of the Known Universe" and you'll see
> it.  Or, edit ~/.xine/config:
>
> # Screensaver reset interval (s)
> # numeric, default: 10
> #gui.screensaver_timeout:10
>
> Uncomment the last line and set an appropriate timeout (i.e. if your
> screensaver is set to come on in 5 minutes, set it to 4).
>
> Mike
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