Re: how avoid blank screen after some time
On 19/11/2024 22:22, Hans wrote:
The strange thing is: When watching a video with "smplayer" or with "mpv",
then the screen is not going blank.
My guess is that mpv properly inhibits screensaver, likely using a D-Bus
call.
<https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2007-March/009187.html>
Stephan Kulow. screensaver dbus interfaces. Mon Mar 5 05:16:39 PST 2007
Besides org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver, there may be org.gnome.ScreenSaver.
You may try some wrapper when starting vlc, e.g.
light-locker-command --inhibit vlc ...
or a python script (not shell one) from (untested)
<https://gist.github.com/fxthomas/9bdfadd972eaf7100b374042faac28c2>
For troubleshooting "busctl --user" with some more arguments may be useful.
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