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totem does not disable screen saver while playing a movie in the full screen mode (two monitors)

Asked by Andrei Kouznetsov

When I play movies with totem on my TV (I have two monitors LCD and TV attached to my laptop with two X servers running (non xinerama mode), two my monitors go to sleep after some time. It didn't happen earlier when I had one monitor (or maybe there were some updates?).

I couldn't find the necessary options in totem to fix it. Any ideas?

I'm running Ubuntu Feisty 7.04.
Thanks

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Andrea Colangelo (warp10) said : 		#1

On my laptop running XGL (to enable Compiz), I had a similar problem, with monitor going black after 10 minutes of video playback. In my case, the solution was to add these lines in my xorg.conf:

Section "ServerFlags"
 Option "blank time" "0"
 Option "standby time" "0"
 Option "suspend time" "0"
 Option "off time" "0"
EndSection

Maybe it can help you too. Check it out!

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Andrei Kouznetsov (andrei-kouznetsov) said : 		#2

This will disable power saving mode at all, right?
Is there a proper way to do it?

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Andrea Colangelo (warp10) said : 		#3

On my laptop this solution doesn't disable power saving mode, because options like screensaver and screen power off that are chosen via gnome menu (something like "energy management", I have an italian translated menu) override xorg.conf configuration. So, this is a perfect solution for my laptop. Try it: if you see this doesn't work for you, just cancel the lines and try another possibility.

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ev45ive (ev45ive) said : 		#4

It's not so good as it seems.
Sometimes I watch some boring movie late in night.
And I'm sleeping in a half of the movie.

Normally monitor should go sleep to but in that case it just do not, and it displays same thing ALL NIGHT!

I've read "man xorg.conf" and it says, that:

BlankTime, StandbyTime, SuspendTime and OffTime options can be " changed at run-time with xset(1). "
I don't know how plugins for totem and rythmbox works, but someone who does could write plugin.

Plugin should set those options to 0 when movie is started and set back to defaults when playback is stopped.

I'm looking forward for comments, Or Working Plugin. ;>

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