On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 11:51:48PM +0000, Matthew Crews wrote: > Hi all, > > Currently I am running Stretch with XFCE (window manager is XFWM4). I > presently use Xscreensaver for my screen saver. Caffeine indicator > doesn't work with XFCE as far as I've been able to tell, so if I want to > temporarily disable the screensaver I need to do so manually, and > re-enable it manually. > > I'm wondering, is there a way to perform this feature with a bash > script? What I'm looking for is a bash script that does the following, > in sequence: > > 1. Disable Xscreensaver > 2. Run a given application > 3. When the application closes, re-enable Xscreensaver
"One" way to do it would be to issue periodically "xscreensaver-command -deactivate" while your application is running [1]. Here [2] is a practical example, for video players. Enjoy [1] https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/man3.html [2] https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#dvd -- tomás
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