[mythtv-users] Playback issues on LIRC button press/gnome-screensaver-command hack cleanup

[Michael T. Dean]

A couple of people on IRC--one using Ubuntu 8.10 and another using 
Fedora 10--asked about an issue where playback paused on every press of 
a remote button, and I provided a (dirty) hack that worked around the 
issue until the real fix/patch was made available in packaged versions 
of Myth.

The problem was that Myth was running gnome-screensaver-command on every 
button press, so the workaround was to create a link called 
gnome-screensaver-command that referred to /bin/true and that exists in 
a PATH directory that comes before the directory containing the real 
gnome-screensaver-command.

I.e. given:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
with (the real) gnome-screensaver-command installed in 
/usr/bin/gnome-screensaver-command , creating the link:
ln -s /bin/true /usr/local/bin/gnome-screensaver-command
would avoid the problem with the remote.

The proper fix has now gone into the -fixes branch, now, so anyone who 
used the hack should clean it up once they get MythTV 0.21-fixes r19222 
(from 2008-12-03 04:36:29 +0000) or above.  If you created a link at 
/usr/local/bin/gnome-screensaver-command , as above, then clean it up with:
rm /usr/local/bin/gnome-screensaver-command

(Just feeling guilty about the ugly hack and had to say something, 
hoping people would clean it up when it's no longer necessary.  And, 
since it seemed to have a rather pronounced effect on the latest Fedora 
and Ubuntu distros, I thought I'd mention it here.)

Mike