VLC media player - screensaver still comes on

[robin_listas]

On 2010-11-19 22:06, henkasdf wrote:

> Unfortunately when I went to that setting it was already set to
> "Disable screen saver".

It appears there is not a common method in Linux to disable all types of
screensavers. Xine, for example, resorted to the trick of emulating a key
press periodically, so that the system thinks there is user activity and
doesn't fire the screensaver.


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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" at Telcontar)

[Sagemta]

I too am a VLC user for me I just went into Configure Desktop & shutoff the screensaver.

[Murdoc_of_PUTS]

I know of a program, called caffeine, I used it in UBUNTU, but haven't been able to find it in suse. it's a systray icon that you can click to disable your screen saver/sleep.
what you need:alien deb python-xlib I'd use Yast, as they have a couple of depencies.
for caffeine-https://launchpad.net/caffeine (the 10.10 works fine in 11.4)
for use in depth use of alien-http://linux.die.net/man/1/alien
then go into your directory, run as root so
sudo alien -r /home/poop/other/caffeine.deb

that will make an rpm file that you can just click on.

enjoy, let me know how this works for you.