[ATrpms-users] gnome-screensaver with mythtv?

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky <atrpms at kosowsky.org>wrote:

> Paulo Cavalcanti wrote at about 06:28:50 -0200 on Wednesday, December 30,
> 2009:
>  > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky <
> atrpms at kosowsky.org>wrote:
>  >
>  > > Paul wrote at about 16:06:32 +1100 on Wednesday, December 30, 2009:
>  > >  > On 30/12/2009 2:05 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
>  > >  > > Anybody know how (if?) you can have mythtv disable the
> screensaver
>  > >  > > when at TV or Video stream is running?
>  > >  > >
>  > >  > > Thanks
>  > >  > >
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>  > >  >
>  > >  > System->Preferences->Look & feel-> Screen saver
>  > >
>  > > I know I can shut it off manually whenever I want
>  > > The question was how do I have *mythtv* disable the screensaver...
>  > >
>  > >
>  > If you use xscreensaver (not gnome-screensaver), you can use a script
> like
>  > that,
>  > for calling mythfrontend:
>  >
>  >
>  > #!/bin/sh
>  >
>  > xscreensaver-command -exit
>  >
>  > mythfrontend
>  >
>  > xscreensaver &
>  >
>
> I was hoping that there would be a cleaner way than using a
> wrapper. It would be great if you could specify a list of programs
> (either via a config file or via a gui) that gnome-screensaver would
> check before activating.
>
> But if I need to do a wrapper, it seems like I could do a similar
> thing with gnome-screensaver.
>
> If you want the analog of the xscreensaver script, you can just do:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/bash
> gnome-screensaver-command -exit
> mythfrontend
> gnome-screensaver
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> However, if you want something a little fancier and more robust you
> can use the '--inhibit' switch and also add a trap to ensure that the
> inhibition is removed (and the screensaver restored) even if you kill
> the script and it exits non-naturally. The trap probably has more
> error checking than necessary, but why not be paranoid...
>
> Note the use of "gnome-screensaver-command --inhibit" together with
> using the trap to selectively only kill the corresponding process on
> termination means that you can have several wrapper scripts for
> multiple programs that independently inhibit the screensaver such that
> the screensaver only can activate once *all* the programs terminate.
>
>
This problem did not exist with myth 0.21,
and I hope it will be fixed, eventually, on myth 0.22

Unfortunately, xscreensaver does not have a --inhibit
option, and I prefer using the real screen saver than its "generic" version.
xscreensaver has dozen of very beautiful animations.

-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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