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burny02

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Registered: 2021-07-01

Posts: 129

Gamepad Screensaver

Hi

I have some games that I use my xbox gamepad with.

It seems like using the gamepad does not stop a screensaver coming on, or the monitor turning off

Is there any way around this?

Thanks in advance

SimonJ

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From: Spain

Registered: 2021-05-11

Posts: 323

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Re: Gamepad Screensaver

I don't know your desktop environment but for XCFE4 you can use a script to start the game and turn on presentation mode, no screensaver, then turn it off when finished eg

#!/bin/bash
DISPLAY=:0.0
USER=$(whoami)
xfconf-query -c xfce4-power-manager -p /xfce4-power-manager/presentation-mode -T
<run game here>
xfconf-query -c xfce4-power-manager -p /xfce4-power-manager/presentation-mode -T
exit

There maybe something similar you can use

Last edited by SimonJ (2024-09-18 19:58:10)

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