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Option to disable screen blanking

Open TheCycoONE opened this issue 6 years ago • 2 comments

In X the joystick input doesn't get intercepted so the screen blanks during play.

It would be nice if the xset workaround was built into this launcher.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/214803/how-to-prevent-dpms-screensaver-from-activating-when-gamepad-used

TheCycoONE avatar Feb 28 '18 01:02 TheCycoONE

I don't want to include platform-dependant code into AEL. Kodi has its own screensaver, so I think the best solution is to execute xset -dpms s off in the script that initialises Kodi.

Another solution is to use a wrapper shell script, like the guy who answer's the question suggests.

Wintermute0110 avatar Feb 28 '18 04:02 Wintermute0110

I suggest you try joystickwake, a program written specifically to solve this kind of issue.

Scall avatar Jul 07 '20 20:07 Scall