Neil Whelchel wrote:

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Bob Cottingham wrote:


Neil Whelchel said:


I use Myth with both plasma and projection monitors, and I am very
cautious about burn-in so I keep my screensaver set to 2 minutes or less.
This creates a major problem while I am using the slideshow feature of
Mythgallery.


I recall that you had stated some time ago that you were working on a
screensaver plugin for mythtv.  I don't recall hearing anything after
that.  Have you made any progress on this?  My understanding is that at
the moment mythtv only supports DPMS and not xscreensaver.  I would like
to be able to have a slideshow of mythgallery images displayed for a
screensaver using either xscreensaver or mythgallery, however I don't
believe we currently have this capability.  Am I wrong or is anyone
working on this feature?

Thanks,
Bob C


At the moment, I added a "Global slideshow" (randomly display all images)
feature to mythgallery. This gets called when idle time exceeds a preset
limit, and the screensaver has not been disabled (within mythtv). Some
time ago, I wrote in some hooks to run modules from xscreensaver (or any
program that can take over a window and display something), but I never
used it much. Later I ended up writing a module to play a slideshow.. So,
I dumped that and went to simply using mythgallery for this. (Why do it
twice?)



What do I need to do to use mythgallery as a screensaver for mythtv?

Thanks,
Bob C

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