Screensaver appears while watching DVD

Rockgod1969 · 03-01-2007, 10:50 PM

So I have kaffeine installed and will be watching a dvd or other movie, when my screensaver from xscreensaver will appear. Isn't there supposed to be some way to make it fake key press so I can watch my movie without hitting the mousepad every 5 minutes?

dive · 03-01-2007, 10:54 PM

Mplayer stops the screensaver while running so you might want to look at that.

Other than that you could run the xscreensaver config 'xscreensaver-demo' and turn it off briefly, or maybe write a shell script that uses 'xscreensaver-command -exit' then starts kaffeine, then does 'xscreensaver-command -restart'

jay73 · 03-01-2007, 11:58 PM

Supposing you're using Gnome, it's really easy to turn off the screensaver. Just look under Preferences/Screensaver. I assume something similar must exist in KDE (but where?).

tredegar · 03-02-2007, 02:20 AM

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I assume something similar must exist in KDE (but where?).

Keffeine -> Settings -> Configure Kaffeine -> Behaviour -> Interval to fake keypresses

Rockgod1969 · 03-03-2007, 12:43 AM

except when I go to kaffeine behavior, interval to fake key press isn't an option. Am I missing a package or something?

tredegar · 03-03-2007, 03:41 AM

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Am I missing a package or something?

Possibly, but who can say when you've told us absolutely nothing about your distro?

Rockgod1969 · 03-03-2007, 04:58 AM

fedora core 6. sorry should have mentioned that in the begining.