[SOLVED] My screen gets suspended even if I'm watching a video

stbug · 2025-01-28 21:43:18

Even if I'm being active, playing or watching a video, the screen gets suspended (I think that's how it's called when the screen gets dim after innactivity).
This happens on the headless mode (tty session), but is not a real problem. The problem is during the X session with startx.
I was hoping to find a way so it gets detected and doesn't suspend or, in the worst case scenario, to completely remove the suspend timer.

Last edited by stbug (2025-02-12 03:04:48)

mackin_cheese · 2025-01-28 21:57:02

what DE / WM are you using?

stbug · 2025-01-29 01:34:16

mackin_cheese wrote:

what DE / WM are you using?

I use the 2bwm on the X session, so I don't have any current desktop manager installed. I usually just use the tty as default and open an X session for some apps.

Last edited by stbug (2025-01-29 01:36:09)

V1del · 2025-01-29 10:00:50

How are you starting the session? Most screensaver blocking happens via a dbus call that mandates an intact login session, i.e. that the notes in https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xinit#xinitrc are followed and a user session properly established. Also not entirely sure whether systemd handles that interface directly itself or some power daemon is necessary that registers itself on the relevant dbus address.

seth · 2025-01-29 16:50:17

OP wrote:

The problem is during the X session with startx.

Also what exactly plays the videos? mpv? mplayer? …

V1del · 2025-01-29 18:49:11

Ah whoops, the note part regarding xinitrc still holds anyway

stbug · 2025-02-02 01:58:47

V1del wrote:

How are you starting the session? Most screensaver blocking happens via a dbus call that mandates an intact login session, i.e. that the notes in https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xinit#xinitrc are followed and a user session properly established. Also not entirely sure whether systemd handles that interface directly itself or some power daemon is necessary that registers itself on the relevant dbus address.

I don't know what do you mean when you say how I start my session, but I think you are refering to my ~/.xinitrc right?

2bwm &
xbindkeys
exec xterm -g 60x20+0+0 -fg white -bg black

stbug · 2025-02-02 02:00:03

seth wrote:

OP wrote:
The problem is during the X session with startx.
Also what exactly plays the videos? mpv? mplayer? …

It happens when I play videos from VLC Media Player, and the last time happend while playing DBZ Sparking Zero using Wine

seth · 2025-02-02 14:26:00

Your xinitrc is broken, leading to a degenerated session lacking session bus integration => last link below.
nb. that VLC has a setting for this behavior, iirc it's off by default?

stbug · 2025-02-03 20:05:30

seth wrote:

Your xinitrc is broken, leading to a degenerated session lacking session bus integration => last link below.
nb. that VLC has a setting for this behavior, iirc it's off by default?

Well, I don't know why is broken my xinitrc, but I copied all the lines from the original xinitrc and it now looks like this

#!/bin/sh

xrdb=xrdb
xinitdir=/etc/X11/xinit
xclock=xclock
xterm=xterm
twm=2bwm
xmodmap=xmodmap

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=$xinitdir/.Xresources
sysmodmap=$xinitdir/.Xmodmap

# merge in defaults and keymaps

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
    if [ -x /usr/bin/cpp ] ; then
        $xrdb -merge $sysresources
    else
        $xrdb -nocpp -merge $sysresources
    fi
fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
    $xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f "$userresources" ]; then
    if [ -x /usr/bin/cpp ] ; then
        $xrdb -merge "$userresources"
    else
        $xrdb -nocpp -merge "$userresources"
    fi
fi

if [ -f "$usermodmap" ]; then
    $xmodmap "$usermodmap"
fi

# start some nice programs

if [ -d $xinitdir/xinitrc.d ] ; then
 for f in "$xinitdir/xinitrc.d"/?*.sh ; do
  [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
 done
 unset f
fi

$twm &
xbindkeys &
exec $xterm -g 60x20+0+0 -fg white -bg black

But the problem persists. And I didn't find how to configure the iirc on vlc.

seth · 2025-02-03 20:29:02

This block is crucial:

if [ -d $xinitdir/xinitrc.d ] ; then
 for f in "$xinitdir/xinitrc.d"/?*.sh ; do
  [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
 done
 unset f
fi

Did you check the video preferences?
Does eg. mpv succesfully block the screensaver/DPMS/suspend?

stbug · 2025-02-03 23:54:48

seth wrote:

Did you check the video preferences?

Yes, but i can't find this iirc option

seth · 2025-02-03 23:56:22

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=iirc

stbug · 2025-02-10 07:08:37

seth wrote:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=iirc

JAJAJAJAJAJJAJAJA, well I hate abbreviations then
I didn't check again with VLC after having fixed my .xinitrc, but it seems that Discord doesn't get dimmed for inactivity, so it may be a problem with wine

seth · 2025-02-10 07:31:11

wine could pot. try to block DPMS itself, but is unlikely forwarding anything like this from windows clients.
You're aware that discord is in the repos?
And it depends on https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/libxss/ …

stbug · 2025-02-12 03:04:27

seth wrote:

try to block DPMS itself, but is unlikely forwarding anything like this from windows clients.

Ah well, that works for me. I don't really like it anyways so turning it off is okey
Thank you so much, I didn't even know how was it called

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