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jocom

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Registered: 2009-04-29

Posts: 74

Re: Awesome WM, disable screen shut off with VLC?

hi I addressed some issues and some unique to me.

1) check if you are loading VLC or a file with VLC (so launch VLC or VLC $1)
...

This may or may not be useful but I post anyway in case it is...

#!/bin/bash
# ...
#Turn off monitor modes that will power down, standby or blank the screen
#Disable modes
/usr/bin/xset -dpms &
/usr/bin/xset s off &

#Open VLC
if [ -n "$1" ]
then
    /usr/bin/vlc "$1"
else
    /usr/bin/vlc
fi

#Re-enable modes
/usr/bin/xset dpms
/usr/bin/xset s on
exit

Why still test for "$1"? If you had listened carefully to jac, you would have used "$@" by now, which expands to all the arguments given to vlc.
That is: no arguments if no arguments given or "$1 $2 $3 ..." if you pass them to your wrapper script.