[mythtv-users] screensaver! Argh!

--[ UxBoD ]-- uxbod at splatnix.net
Sun Jan 21 16:28:47 UTC 2007


You could also see if it is in /usr/share/gnome/autostart.

On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:51:03 -0500
Rich West <Rich.West at wesmo.com> wrote:

> --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote:
> > On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 20:01:39 -0600
> > jedi at mishnet.org (Kevin Hulse) wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 07:36:18PM -0500, Rich West wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Xamindar wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>> Rich West wrote:
> >>>>   
> >>>>         
> >>>>> I know I am doing something inconsistently wrong here, but I
> >>>>> cannot seem to figure out what it is. :(
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I've got FC5 x86 on all of my FE boxes, and, in gnome, I have
> >>>>> used the GUI to change the screensaver preferences such that
> >>>>> "Activate screensaver when session is idle" is not checked.
> >>>>> Also, when my "mythwrapper.sh" script fires up, it should
> >>>>> disable the screensaver as well: #!/bin/sh
> >>>>>           
> >> 	This is one of those things that continues to encourage
> >> me to use no window manager whatsoever despite the fact that this
> >> is a "discouraged" configuration.
> > If it is Gnome-ScreenSaver then just go into
> > System->Preferences->ScreenSaver and untick the two checkboxes ?
> >   
> 
> That's how I started.  I thought that was enough to disable the 
> screensaver and thought nothing of it since.  Now that the
> environment has stabilized, I'm not fiddling with the remote
> constantly, so user input is idle for long periods of time and I'm
> seeing this screensaver pop up.
> 
> I'm going to test things today to replicate it and see what is
> actually causing the screensaver to kick off.
> 
> -Rich
> 
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