[Solved]Inhibit xscreensaver like xfce does?

kgavionics · 2020-11-01 05:50:13

Hello
I'm on bspwm and I want to inhibit the xscreensaver when a video is playing in chromium. I know that Xfce when a video a playing in normal or full screen, if I click on the Power manager Icon in the system tray, I have a message that chromium is inhibiting the screensaver!
I'm wondering which I package I have to install to get a feature like this in bspwm.

Thank you in advance

Last edited by kgavionics (2020-11-02 01:28:30)

skunktrader · 2020-11-01 05:53:20

Does

xset s off

do what you want?

kgavionics · 2020-11-01 06:18:51

skunktrader wrote:

Does
xset s off
do what you want?

Thank you
Yes, it does, but I'm looking for an automatic way to do it like in xfce!

seth · 2020-11-01 07:42:13

This has nothing to do w/ xfce or bspwm and you cannot "install a package" to make it work.

Chromium inhabits the screensaver through a standardized dbus interface, https://people.freedesktop.org/~hadess/ … /re01.html
XScreenSaver simply doesn't implement any dbus interfaces so chromium cannot inhibit it this way.

There's a python based shim, but that only allows to trigger a lock via dbus: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xscr … creenlock/
On a superficial check, none of the standalone screensavers/lockers seems to implement that, only the DE integrated ones, so you've have to eg. use xfce4-screensaver

kgavionics · 2020-11-01 14:43:35

seth wrote:

This has nothing to do w/ xfce or bspwm and you cannot "install a package" to make it work.
Chromium inhabits the screensaver through a standardized dbus interface, https://people.freedesktop.org/~hadess/ … /re01.html
XScreenSaver simply doesn't implement any dbus interfaces so chromium cannot inhibit it this way.
There's a python based shim, but that only allows to trigger a lock via dbus: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xscr … creenlock/
On a superficial check, none of the standalone screensavers/lockers seems to implement that, only the DE integrated ones, so you've have to eg. use xfce4-screensaver

Thank you, Seth, for the explanation!!!

Last edited by kgavionics (2020-11-01 14:43:52)

Alad · 2020-11-01 15:50:57

https://github.com/retropc/pyinhibitor

kgavionics · 2020-11-01 18:41:26

Alad wrote:

https://github.com/retropc/pyinhibitor

Thank you for the link, I'm gonna try it out!
Update:
The script is working good!

Last edited by kgavionics (2020-11-02 01:29:06)

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[Solved]Inhibit xscreensaver like xfce does?

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