Hi Everyone,
This week I’ve installed openSUSE 11.3 and it works like a dream. My only problem is that when I watch DVD’s or video files, my screensaver still comes on. Yes I know that some of you don’t like screensavers on your systems, but I like my good old screensaver. 
I know with SMPlayer there is an option under the preferences to disable the screensaver with video playback. I can’t find such an option in the preferences for VLC.
Any suggestions?
Many thanks
henkasdf
Hi Evereryone,
I have found the solution:
1
Open VLC media player. For example, in Ubuntu 10.04 click “Main Menu,” hover over “Sound and Video,” and then click “VLC Media Player.”
2
Click “Tools” and then “Preferences” in the VLC toolbar. VLC displays the “Simple” or beginners’ preferences and settings interface by default.
3
Click the “All” radio (round) button at the bottom left corner of the window. This expands the settings options to include advanced VLC features.
4
Click “Video” in the expanded menu on the left side of the window. Check the box next to “Disable Screensaver” under “General Video Settings” on the right.
5
Click the “Save” button to activate the new settings and close the VLC preferences window. Now the screen saver will be disabled during any type of video playback.
Read more: How to Disable the Screensaver in VLC | eHow.com How to Disable the Screensaver in VLC | eHow.com
Oh! Thanks, i didn’t know this one.
Hi,
Unfortunately when I went to that setting it was already set to “Disable screen saver”. Now I don’t know what to do. I’ve unchecked it and applied the settings and I’ve rechecked and apllied it but the screen saver still comes on. When I use SMplayer though, I can watch a DVD straight through without the screen saver coming on.
Any suggestions as to why this is happening?
Many thanks
henkasdf
Had the same problem. As far as I know it was some sort of bug in KDE power management. For me it depended on the KDE version. As far as I remember it was working well in KDE 4.4 and it wasn’t in KDE 4.3. It is working fine for me in KDE 4.5.
Best regards,
Greg
Which is why I use smplayer. Do you not like it or something.
The option to disable screensaver wasn’t working in smplayer for me as well in the buggy KDE versions so that actually didn’t depend on the player.
I just prefer VLC above SMplayer that’s all, I’ve been using it for about 2 years and I’m very happy with it. I have SMplayer installed though.
I must admit that my previous installation of openSUSE 11.2 was a lot more stable than my current 11.3 . Do you suggest I upgarde to KDE 4.5?
Thanks a lot for your friendly and helpful advice always!
henkasdf
@henkasdf
Upgrade is personal choice really. If what you have is working well, stick with it. And just ATM I am not doing updates on my kde4.5 because I’m unsure what is happening to some of the packages there (namely: amarok). I didn’t get a definite answer to my question in the IRC either. But currently amarok has been withdrawn from R45 repo.
I think You could try to upgrade and see if this resolves the screensaver issue. If not than downgrade is fairly easy to do. I prefer 4.5 but that’s a matter of personal preference I guess.
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.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
I too am a VLC user for me I just went into Configure Desktop & shutoff the screensaver.
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.