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#1 2009-06-19 20:57:09

jduped
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[Solved] Screensaver kicking in when fullscreen vlc

I read a post about this issue, and misfit138 suggested adding the following lines to xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    Option "BlankTime" "0"                     # added
    Option "StandbyTime" "0"                 # lines
    Option "SuspendTime" "0"                #
    Option "OffTime" "0"                        #
EndSection

anywho I add these lines and my screen saver does not kick in what so ever...so it works but no screensaver ever kicks in.

what I would really like is this.

I full screen vlc or flash content on the web and my screen saver does not kick in, in all other situations it does.  I'm using gnome-screensaver with xscreensaver installed as well to offer more screen savers as I really really like linux screen savers...

any one with the same issue? any solutions?

Thanks

cool

Last edited by jduped (2009-06-23 14:49:15)


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#2 2009-06-19 21:10:05

Maki
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Re: [Solved] Screensaver kicking in when fullscreen vlc

does it happen with other video players ?


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#3 2009-06-19 21:39:52

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Re: [Solved] Screensaver kicking in when fullscreen vlc

I run a small script when I plan to see a video and know that the screen saver will activate, here it is

#!/bin/bash
watch -n 300 /usr/bin/xscreensaver-command -deactivate

Just change the 300 to some reasonable number in seconds that falls before your screensaver activates.


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#4 2009-06-19 22:12:50

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Re: [Solved] Screensaver kicking in when fullscreen vlc

ok...

testing away

....strange screen saver seems to be staying off in both vlc and media-player I'm going to play around to get a concept on this issue... I'll post when I have more to add.

big_smile thanks so far.


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#5 2009-06-19 22:13:29

jduped
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Re: [Solved] Screensaver kicking in when fullscreen vlc

Rookie...where do you put that script?


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#6 2009-06-20 10:29:40

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Re: [Solved] Screensaver kicking in when fullscreen vlc

jduped wrote:

Rookie...where do you put that script?

I can leave it on my home directory and open a terminal and run it with ./stop_screensaver or these days I have created /extra and put stuff like this and wireless certificates and some chroot helper scripts there. Then I just add a script to /etc/profile.d to add /extra to the search path and I'm good to go, just open the cli and stop_screensaver.


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#7 2009-06-23 14:48:23

jduped
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Re: [Solved] Screensaver kicking in when fullscreen vlc

I removed "gnome-screensaver" and "xscreensaver"

installed "xscreensaver-arch-logo" from aur and it seems to be fine.

I like the script idea so I may use that should it come up again.

Last edited by jduped (2009-06-23 14:48:47)


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#8 2010-02-17 23:51:17

Sheeepy
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Re: [Solved] Screensaver kicking in when fullscreen vlc

I prefer that wink
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29762 / https://launchpad.net/caffeine
It's very useful.  One can add processes to the automatic activation...

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