[Pkg-xbmc-maintainers] Bug#739727: xbmc: Screen goes to sleep during playback

[Bálint Réczey]

Hi Pavel,

Control : severity wishlist

2014-02-22 0:08 GMT+01:00 Pavel Goriacko <pavel.goriacko at gmail.com>:
> Package: xbmc
> Version: 2:12.3+dfsg2-4
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> xbmc does not prevent the screen from going blank after 10 minutes of keyboard inactivity. This happens when I play videos or music: the screen goes blank so I need to move the mouse to wake it. I have turned off the "put display to sleep when idle" setting, that didn't change anything. It does not happen when I play videos in mpv or vlc. I am running xbmc on top of openbox with no xscreensaver or anything like that.

I think the following will help:

xset -dpms; xset s off
from: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Display_Power_Management_Signaling

Do you run XMBC full screen? Have you enabled screen saver in XBMC?

Cheers,
Balint