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by **?ystein Skadse** » Thu, 24 May 2001 03:32:11

Is it possible to disable screensaver and or the DPMS temporarily in KDE?
Preferably by a short command so I could incorporate it in a startup script
when I want to watch TV or a divx movie and the like.

And does anyone know of a TV application for KDE for cards supported by
GATOS? xatitv is ugly, and gatitv not much better, aside from the fact that
it's GNOME :-)

--
?ystein Skadsem

Only two of my personalities are schizophrenic, but one of them is
paranoid and the other one is out to get him.

by **?ystein Skadse** » Fri, 25 May 2001 00:20:51

> Is it possible to disable screensaver and or the DPMS temporarily in KDE?
> Preferably by a short command so I could incorporate it in a startup script
> when I want to watch TV or a divx movie and the like.

Well, I'll answer myself. xset works nicely for DPMS (man xset). I couldn't
make xset work with KDE's screesavers though. Guess I'll have to be
satisified with a blank screen instead of kmatrix. :(

--
?ystein Skadsem

Only two of my personalities are schizophrenic, but one of them is
paranoid and the other one is out to get him.

by **Rolf Magnu** » Fri, 25 May 2001 00:34:13

>> Is it possible to disable screensaver and or the DPMS temporarily in KDE?
>> Preferably by a short command so I could incorporate it in a startup
>> script when I want to watch TV or a divx movie and the like.

> Well, I'll answer myself. xset works nicely for DPMS (man xset). I
> couldn't make xset work with KDE's screesavers though. Guess I'll have to
> be satisified with a blank screen instead of kmatrix. :(

You can:

# look if screensaver is enabled
oldstate=`dcop kdesktop KScreensaverIface isEnabled`

# disable screensaver
dcop kdesktop KScreensaverIface enable false

# start the video app

# reset to old state
[ oldstate == "1" ] &&
dcop kdesktop KScreensaverIface enable true

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disabling screensaver/DPMS temporarily

disabling screensaver/DPMS temporarily

disabling screensaver/DPMS temporarily

disabling screensaver/DPMS temporarily