2013-01-28, 10:05
On the Mac version of XBMC there is a serious issue with the screen sleep: XBMC has its own way to put the screen to sleep, and does this regardless what is happening in OSX.
For example:
If you ctrl-tab away from XBMC into another application, and XBMC is not touched for 3 minutes, it shuts the display even when mouse/keyboard activity is happening in another process. As I type this my screen went black.
I think the good way to implement sleep is:
- Just let OSX do the energy saving: if OSX is set to 5 minutes before screen turn off, let OSX deal with that.
- Suppress the OSX sleep when playing movies (like VLC, Quicktime, The Tube etc do.)
There is no need to make your own system.
Another anoying thing of the current system:
If you have both OSX energy saving and XBCM screen sleep active, your screen will light up every 3 minutes and show a no-signal screen. Not the best for your backlight.
For example:
If you ctrl-tab away from XBMC into another application, and XBMC is not touched for 3 minutes, it shuts the display even when mouse/keyboard activity is happening in another process. As I type this my screen went black.
I think the good way to implement sleep is:
- Just let OSX do the energy saving: if OSX is set to 5 minutes before screen turn off, let OSX deal with that.
- Suppress the OSX sleep when playing movies (like VLC, Quicktime, The Tube etc do.)
There is no need to make your own system.
Another anoying thing of the current system:
If you have both OSX energy saving and XBCM screen sleep active, your screen will light up every 3 minutes and show a no-signal screen. Not the best for your backlight.
