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On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 05:05:36PM +0300, Eva Star wrote:
> On 09/25/2016 01:36 PM, Andrew David Wong wrote:
> 
> > Sure, that could make sense. Some desktop environments already support
> > something similar. For example, in KDE you can assign different power
> > settings (including timeouts) to different "activities," then assign
> > hotkeys (or use a GUI widget) to switch between "activities."
> > 
> 
> i explore the problem. is is not so hard to do (send new settings to
> xscreensaver at dom0):
> 
> 1. when key combination pressed: change .xscreensaver file at user home and
> notify xscreensaver daemon about that.
> 2. then wait 130 mins and change them to the defaults.
> 
> The only one problem is unexpected system reboot, when temporary settings
> will be stored as defaults. It's bad.
> 
> Maybe the scheme:
> 1. when key combination pressed: change .xscreensaver file at user home and
> notify xscreensaver daemon about that.
> 2. then IMMEDIATELY change .xscreensaver file to defaults WITHOUT daemon
> notifications will work. I think, that daemon will read new configuration
> from .xscreensaver file automatically after 130 mins, but I'm not sure that
> it will not read it before... Need some testing...

What about disabling xscreensaver completely for 120 mins?
Something like:

    xscreensaver-command -exit
    sleep 7200
    xscreensaver &

No settings are changed, so unexpected system reboot isn't a problem.

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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