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mehdi-n

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Registered: 2022-05-02

Posts: 14

keep screen on when using video-players other than mpv

What is the clean way to disable screensaver for a specific app like stremio?
Is there app-specific configurations? or should I link the app to somewhere in the system? or running a script when starting the app?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: keep screen on when using video-players other than mpv

Write a wrapper script and use xset s off -dpms to disable ands xset s on +dpms respectively to enable again. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Displa … _a_command

So something along the lines of

xset s off -dpms
$yourapplicationhere$
xset s on +dpms