[mythtv-users] viewer falls asleep with the EPG open - plasma burn in concerns

[Johnny Walker]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Johnny Walker <johnnyjboss at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Greg Oliver <oliver.greg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Johnny Walker <johnnyjboss at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Johnny Walker <johnnyjboss at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Michael T. Dean
>>>> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 03/30/2010 02:49 PM, Johnny Walker wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That is interesting since I just installed xdg-utils on my dev laptop
>>>>>> and 'xdg-screensaver activate' is not invoking my screensaver either
>>>>>> in 9.10. I wonder if there's a bug.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, note that xdg-screensaver only supports those screensaver programs for
>>>>> which someone has submitted supported code.  I wouldn't be surprised if the
>>>>> one you're trying to use isn't supported, yet.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>> So far I've been trying to use antspotlight which I thought was part
>>>> of gnome-screensaver and managed through the xfce control panel.
>>>>
>>>> The only bug I have found (so far) is related to /not/ being able to
>>>> poke the gnome-screensaver. I've yet to locate a bug on not being able
>>>> to start it.
>>>>
>>> I seem to be on the right trail now...
>>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538694
>>>
>>> I can confirm that my output of gnome-power-manager --verbose shows me this:
>>>
>>> - DBUS error: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SessionManager':
>>> no such name
>>>
>>> as well as:
>>>
>>> - no gnome-session
>>>
>>> Is it possible that the gnome-screensaver is not valid in an xfce session?
>>
>> I can say that from 9.10 -> 10.4 Ubuntu changed back to xscreensaver
>> instead of gnome-screensaver...
>>
>> -Greg
>
> Indeed - installing xscreensaver in my mythbuntu 9.10 environment
> causes 'xdg-screensaver activate' to function.
>
> I'm still trying to determine where the issue is. I'm tempted to
> believe it's a problem with xfce4-session-manager and it not accepting
> calls from dbus.
>
> As a side note - I see AntSpotlight is available in xscreensaver too.
> (Laughing at self)
>
> -Johnny
>

So I've had to retest my scenarios now that I have a working
xscreensaver. There appears to be different bad behavior happening
now.

If I set xscreensaver to kick in at 1 minute and then watch a
recording sometimes the screensaver kicks in and other times it stays
disabled.

when it pops up and I'm ssh'd in - I've exported the DISPLAY=:0.0
variable and yet 'xdg-screensaver reset' doesn't make it go away.

I'm still working on determining the how and when of the
xscreensaver's appearance.

-Johnny