Michael Ruelle wrote:
> It is doable. It would have to be a daemonplugin with the event_listener
> attribute set toTRUE. you could then track when events happened in an
> eventhandler and then use the poll method of the dameonplugin to see
> when the last event happened and call the screensaver if that value is
> larger than your threshhold. And of course putting something in
> eventhandler for you to wakeup and kill the screemsaver when you recieve
> and event (since it may come from lirc and the screensaver may not get
> out of the way.)
Right.
> 1. I have had reports that the daemonplugins setup like this won't
> recieve events if you are in the main menu. (gonna have to see if that's
> true later, not at home now)
No, there shouldn't be a problem with that.
> 2. It would only work for people with X11 based setups, unless there are
> console based fb screensavers. I guess we could try to force screen
> blanking in fb setups
we could add a config variable SCREENSAVER with the screensaver
command. It could also be possible to use mplayer to play a
screensaver.
Dischi
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