On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 11:15 -0500, marsh wrote:
> > Package: xine-ui
> > Version: 0.99.6-1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Normally, my screensaver is inactive:
> > > xset q
> > Screen Saver:
> > prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes
> > timeout: 0 cycle: 600
> >
> > xine enables it on exit, regardless of its prior state:
> > > xine some-file.avi
> > > xset q
> > Screen Saver:
> > prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes
> > timeout: 600 cycle: 600
> >
> > This is relatively new behavior. My old machine, which hadn't been
> > updated particularly frequently, left the screensaver inactive after
> > running. If I had to guess, I'd say it was probably the change to use
> > XScreenSaver rather than fake keypresses.
> >
> > This is with fvwm, no gnome nor kde.
>
> xine now uses the xdg-screensaver command to control screensavers. If
> you're not using GNOME or KDE then this will run 'xset s off' to inhibit
> the X server's built-in screensaver and 'xset s default' to return to
> the default screensaver behaviour (i.e whatevery you configured).
> According to the manual page xorg.conf(5), the default screensaver
> timeout is indeed 10 minutes. Do you disable the screensaver in a
> session script or in the X server configuration?
>
> Ben.
>
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> Ben Hutchings
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>
I've added the following file:
$ cat /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-screensaver.conf
Section "ServerFlags"
BlankTime 0
EndSection
and now everything seems to work just fine. Thanks.
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