hawklord Posted November 6, 2009 Report Share Posted November 6, 2009 i'm trying to switch my screen saver off, its a bit annoying when i'm trying to watch a video i've dissabled all the settings i can find but it still comes on after 10 mins - even tried setting it to 2 hours, 10 mins later and its back on, in the end i created .xinitrc and added this xset s off seems to have worked, but its a bit 'permanent' and it won't be saved when i image my / partition is there another way i can switch my screen saver off ? - so i can have an option of switching it on if i need to ta [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted November 7, 2009 Report Share Posted November 7, 2009 (edited) In VLC, disabling the screensaver basically works right out of the box. With mplayer and its frontends, you have to do a couple of things: nano ~/.mplayer/config In that file, add a line heartbeat-cmd="xscreensaver-command -deactivate &" This should work for all DE's - if it doesn't then change to heartbeat-cmd="gnome-screensaver-command -p &" for GNOME. Notice that the GNOME screensaver may stay off even after mplayer is closed, due to a bug (which I don't know if has been fixed). Edited November 7, 2009 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawklord Posted November 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2009 ermmm - actually i think i should have explained better, i mean the main kde screensaver, the one in system settings > desktop > screen saver my mandriva is for multi-media and i mainly use xine - if i'm watching a vid the screen saver comes on, if i'm listening to music (via amarock) i like graphics that go with that music, but if i'm listening to, for instance, tangerine dream - after 10 mins the screen saver comes on , i know its the main kde screen saver as i've set it to the clock - guess what comes on after 10 mins, the file i created stops this happening, but is there another way ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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