2009-04-09, 15:46
I've used my Macbook as an HTPC for a while now, until recently I was using Front Row. I like to leave my media app on all the time and when I haven't touched it for an hour, I like the display to go to sleep. Front Row coped with this fine.
However, I can't seem to get it to work with XBMC. I'm using 9.04 and it doesn't sleep the display after an hour's inactivity as per the system settings - is XBMC overriding this? I know it would be inconvenient if it slept during a movie, but Front Row somehow knew if it was playing something or not and only ignored the sleep setting when it was.
On top of this, if I press ctrl-shift-eject to manually sleep the display it wakes up again after a few seconds. Also, the black screen screensaver seemingly doesn't work - nothing happens. Incidentally, does the black screensaver cut out the backlight or just black over it? Because it would be useless for my purposes if it didn't cut out the backlight.
So, can I somehow have the display sleep whilst XBMC is open?
However, I can't seem to get it to work with XBMC. I'm using 9.04 and it doesn't sleep the display after an hour's inactivity as per the system settings - is XBMC overriding this? I know it would be inconvenient if it slept during a movie, but Front Row somehow knew if it was playing something or not and only ignored the sleep setting when it was.
On top of this, if I press ctrl-shift-eject to manually sleep the display it wakes up again after a few seconds. Also, the black screen screensaver seemingly doesn't work - nothing happens. Incidentally, does the black screensaver cut out the backlight or just black over it? Because it would be useless for my purposes if it didn't cut out the backlight.
So, can I somehow have the display sleep whilst XBMC is open?