[Wlug] How to stop screen blanking while watching movie?

[Aaron Haviland]

Richard Klein wrote, on Oct 22, 2007 at 06:52 EDT:
> Windows XP and OS X are both smart enough to not blank the screen or
> invoke the screensaver when I'm watching a movie.  My P4m-based laptop
> (Dell Inspiron 8200) running debian etch blanks the screen after 15
> minutes, even if I disable the screensaver and all power saving
> options.  I don't watch movies on it that often, so I resigned myself
> to hitting the CTRL key every so often when I do.  I installed Ubuntu
> Guilty Gibson on my Opteron-based desktop (Asus A8V Deluxe
> motherboard) yesterday and found it does exactly the same thing.
> 
> Do you have any ideas how I can get them to stop blanking the screen,
> at least while I'm watching movies?

Depending on what software you use to watch movies... I'm fairly certain
mplayer and gxine try do this by default, as I only recall having had
the screensaver kick in while watching something in totem.

-- 
Aaron Haviland
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