So I tested out this evening with not pressing buttons for a really long time while watching myth - and xscreensaver does kick in eventually, but i can just hit a key on my remote to kill it. It just happened to coincidently press a button each time before it would normally kick in, be it volume or commercial skip.
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:09:38 -0500, Ben Giddings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Donavan Stanley wrote: > >>>Myth will allow your existing screensaver to kick in as needed, > >>>provided you have one of course. > >> > >>This doesn't appear to be entirely accurate to me. I believe that Myth > >>only supports DPMS. If you turn on screensavers in KDE or use > >>xscreensaver, the screensaver will kick in regardless of whether you are > >>watching a show or not. I tried this again last night just to be sure and > >>it started up 10 mintutes into our TV show. > > > > I've just done a quick instrumentation of the code and verified that > > the calls are being made to disable/enable the screensaver properly as > > well as turn off dpms. Why they're not working for all users, I'm not > > sure and right now I'm too tired to dig into it. > > Just as a data point, using KDE's screensaver, it doesn't seem to kick > in when I'm using Myth, but I can't get it to go away using the remote > (using LIRC native in Myth). If I hit a keyboard key though, it does > the right thing. > > Ben > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >
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