I find it very annoying that xscreensaver sometimes helpfully starts while I'm playing Urban Terror, and was wondering if there is a better way to solve this than making some script to run Urban Terror which kills xscreensaver first. My system is Arch Linux, with xscreensaver 5.22.
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Use caffeine if yaourt installed otherwise you will have to build it from here after it is running. Activate it. It differs slightly based on DM how to set it up. You just need to add the executable to caffeine. I am not familiar with Urban Terror, but you might have to include the wine part of the executable when configuring caffeine |
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The latest versions of Cinnamon come with their wn screensaver package so these solutions might not work, but they do on my Cinnamon 1.8.8. lightsOnLighstOn is a simple BASH script that will inhibit the screensaver when it detects any of a list of user defined programs (mplayer, and therefore smplayer, are on the list by default) running in full screen mode. Download lightsOn from here. I just tried it and it works perfectly. You might want to make it start automatically by adding it to Cinnamon's start up application list. caffeineCaffeine is a system tray applet for Gnome3 (it may or may not work in Cinnamon, I have not tried it). According to this site, you can give it a list of programs and it will inhibit the screensaver if they are running (full screen or not). According to the same site, it can work with both |
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