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2013-04-14, 00:42
For those of us not using a full time XBMC machine, having an option for xbmc to disable the DE's screensaver would be very nice. Mplayer can do this via a line in its config file, for example ~/.mplayer/config
For xscreensaver: heartbeat-cmd="xscreensaver-command -deactivate >&- 2>&- &"
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put that in the shell script used to launch xbmc. reactivate afterwards. problem solved. no code needed. no extra logic required to handle peeps not wanting it.
this is a solved problem looking for an overly complicated solution...
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2013-04-15, 14:48
(This post was last modified: 2013-04-15, 14:48 by spiff.)
while i understand where you are coming from... the problem is, then somebody wants something different on droid, something else on ios, we need the equivalent on windows and so on. if it can be done modularly outside code base, it should. simply to keep it manageable.
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I understand, spiff. I am happy to run the little shell script I whipped up, and will see about modifying the xbmc wiki for linux users to see it.