Re: [kaffeine-devel] Kaffeine x display power management

[Christoph P. <chr...@gm...>]

2010/9/7 Dâniel Fraga <fr...@gm...>:
> On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 12:30:59 +0200
> Christoph Pfister <chr...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> xscreensaver is a different story. On a quick test here Kaffeine
>> wasn't able to suspend it (= xscreensaver doesn't use the XSS
>> extension). Seems that I need to add a 4th way of screensaver
>> inhibition *sigh* (hmm ... why are people using xscreensaver? ...)
>
>        Sorry, I didn't understand. I know there's the xscreensaver
> software:
>
> http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/
>
>        but I never used it!
>
>        I always used the DPMS configuration from xorg.conf. For
> example:

Ok.

> Section "ServerFlags"
>    Option         "BlankTime" "10"
>    Option         "StandbyTime" "0"
>    Option         "SuspendTime" "0"
>    Option         "OffTime" "15"
> EndSection
>
>        And the Option "DPMS" of course.
>
>        And the KDE4 options regarding display power management (maybe
> it's redundant...).
>
>        Maybe I should just remove the "BlankTime" option? It's
> useless, isn't it? I think this workaround is better than to change
> Kaffeine's code to handle that. What do you think?

You have to set the times >50 seconds (recommended is >=60), then
it'll work as expected :-)

>        I think I'll remove this whole section from xorg.conf and just
> use KDE's power management features, which will do the right thing...
>
>
> --

Christoph