Disable turn off screen while youtube is watching

xorgx3 · 2012-09-03 08:04:41

I want disable screen blanking if I am watching something in fullscreen(eg YouTube).
If I watching movies in offline player (VLC) there is no problem, screen not blanking. It happens when I watching online players like YT.

How can i fix them?

skunktrader · 2012-09-03 08:06:45

 xset -dpms

xorgx3 · 2012-09-03 08:31:23

Perhaps I wrote something wrong.

I do not want disable completely blanking screen, but only when I watching something on fulscreen.

Anyway I did it by option offtime in xorg.conf.

progandy · 2012-09-03 08:47:40

You should create a daemon that detects certain fullscreen windows and then issues commands to inhibit the screensaver, disable dpms, prevent standby,
Edit: Start here: https://github.com/unhammer/lightsOn

Last edited by progandy (2012-09-03 08:51:00)

kanine5 · 2012-09-03 09:12:00

There's an app called caffeine, you might find that useful.
Link here: https://launchpad.net/caffeine

I think the package in in the AUR

xorgx3 · 2012-09-03 10:20:26

Thanks progandy this script looks fine.
I added this script to my autostart in openbox, this is enough to work?

Last edited by xorgx3 (2012-09-03 10:21:11)

jv2112 · 2012-09-03 11:13:16

Nice Script! :-)

solamir · 2012-09-03 11:18:16

You can launch your browser by script:

#!/bin/bash
firefox &
while true
do
xdotool key shift; sleep 60
done

Xdotool will be pressing shift key once a minute. Сertainly package xdotool (from community) must be installed in your sistem.

Last edited by solamir (2012-09-03 11:42:37)

karol · 2012-09-03 11:33:53

solamir wrote:

You can launch your browser by script:
#!/bin/bash
firefox &
while true
do
xdotool key shift; sleep 60
done
Xdotool will be pressing shift key once a minute. Сertainly package xdotool (from community) must be installed in your sistem.

http://xkcd.com/196/

solamir, if you want to paste a snippet of code, please use [ code ] tags

like this

It makes the code more readable and - in case of longer listings - more convenient to scroll through.

solamir · 2012-09-03 11:49:19

Thank you, karol.
It's fixed.

xorgx3 · 2012-09-05 06:04:00

Hmm, it's my again.
I like this script: https://github.com/unhammer/lightsOn
But I added it to autostart and it not working correctly. I'm using openbox.
This is my autostart :

tint2 &
sh ~/.fehbg &
conky -c ~/.conkyrc &
sleep 8 && conky -c ~/.conkyrc2 &
exec setxkbmap pl &
/usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &
#volumeicon &
sh ~/.scripts/lightsOn.sh 250 &

How to do this script check fullscreen every 4 minutes?

I hope you understand what my problem is.

thrashzone_ua · 2018-10-20 06:59:16

I have such solution: listen to sound output and if it is running - emulate a key event.
script:

#!/bin/bash
while true; do
  sleep 30
  RUNNING=$(pacmd list-sink-inputs  | grep -w state | grep RUNNING)
  if [ -n "${RUNNING}" ]; then
    xdotool key shift
  fi
done

and run it in .xinitrc like this:

sh /path-to-script/script-name.sh &

putting this line before starting DE

yes, it's quite an old topic, but I hope my solution will be helpful for somebody

HiImTye · 2018-10-20 09:48:03

if your browser doesn't daemonize, you can just have xset before and after your browser in your launcher script, i.e.

xset -dpms
firefox
xset +dpms

Last edited by HiImTye (2018-10-20 09:48:17)

WorMzy · 2018-10-20 22:27:43

Thanks for sharing. I'm going to go ahead and close this old topic now.

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Disable turn off screen while youtube is watching

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