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Stop screen dimming when watching video
mattkhan:
thanks for confirming you see similar behaviour
--- Quote from: mwillems on August 09, 2022, 08:31:36 pm ---Obviously, I would prefer if MC could natively prevent screen turn off/suspend, but, honestly, browser video and some other software I use have the same problem interfacing with my DE's power management on Linux (e.g. if I'm watching a streaming film in the browser, the browser doesn't seem to prevent the screen from turning off either).
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fwiw this does work in my case (e.g. watching youtube in chrome or firefox or playing a video in smplayer/mpv) so for me it's just MC that has a problem (on what appears to be pretty much vanilla debian/kde system)
bob:
I assume you did turn in the option in MC's audio options to not disable HDMI during playback?
mwillems:
--- Quote from: bob on December 16, 2022, 07:49:00 pm ---I assume you did turn in the option in MC's audio options to not disable HDMI during playback?
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In my case, yes I tried that option, but it doesn't seem to make a difference on any of my systems. For reference all my systems run either Gnome or Xfce4. Most of those are on Debian 11.
bob:
--- Quote from: mwillems on December 16, 2022, 09:28:54 pm ---In my case, yes I tried that option, but it doesn't seem to make a difference on any of my systems. For reference all my systems run either Gnome or Xfce4. Most of those are on Debian 11.
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Works perfectly for me in Buster xfce4
The call is pretty simple
mwillems:
--- Quote from: bob on December 17, 2022, 10:06:56 am ---Works perfectly for me in Buster xfce4
The call is pretty simple
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Can you tell me what your xfce4 power management settings are like so I can try to replicate? I've been tinkering with this for a while and I've never had MC successfully inhibit screen turn off or suspend with xfce, so if there's a combination of settings that works I'd be be happy to adopt it!
Does it work for you with Gnome as well?
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