On Sun, 2015-04-26 at 14:21 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 12:43:08 +0200 > Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Am 26.04.2015 um 12:28 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan: > > > Slightly OT: video players can prevent locking, but can they > > > prevent the screen going dark? This happens to me all the time when > > > watching a long video. > > I know that mplayer disables dpms settings automatically (and by > default) when playing a video (or even only audio!). I also know that > when watching videos on YouTube (in firefox, using whatever the default > backend player) the dpms settings do *not* get disabled, and the screen > may go into standby in the middle of an interesting scene. :-) I > wouldn't know about other video players (I use only mplayer), but I > guess that they should implement this feature also (if they're worth > their wit anyway). [...] > Just put "xset -dpms" somewhere in your login (or bootup) scripts, and > live happily everafter. :-) Thanks for the detailed answer. I'm mainly interested in Youtube videos, most of which are quite long courseware sessions on my desktop. I hesitate to turn off screen blanking entirely but I guess it's something I'll have to get used to. poc _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
