I understand what you are saying but I dont think its the simpler option to make 2 different launcher for the same application with different parameters. I will try the script Curt send me. I think that solution is applicable to other use cases. Reading pdf files, presentations etc.
Thanks for your reply! On 4/2/19 5:46 PM, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 02 Apr 2019 at 08:55:58 (+0300), Georgios wrote: >> I'm watching movies through netflix so I do not have any ideas how to >> write a script that will do that thing. I guess the script should detect >> if an application is in full screen mode. > > What the script is doing is signalling your intent to watch a movie > rather than to, say, browse the web. The power of the CLI is that you > can wrap a number of actions that follow from your intent within one > command, whereas it might take several clicks on menus and buttons > to achieve the ssme ends on a DE. > > You write "an application" above. Presumably you watch movies in > one application but you also use that same application to do other > things too. One solution to this may be to have two ways of opening > this application, one for when watching movies, one for otherwis > > This is standard practice with CLIs, where calling the same program > but with a different commandname makes it behave differently, > eg aplay and arecord, which call the same binary. > > For a DE, this could mean, say, having two icons for opening the same > application, but which do different things to start with. It's much > easier to cause something to happen on the system than to try to > ascertain a certain application's state when its author didn't think > of providing the means to find out. > > A different tack might be to see if your WM has menus, or can create > buttons, or define a function key, that can be used to change your > power settings. For example, in fvwm, I have Alt-F10 set to take a > full screen shot with: > Key F10 A M Exec exec myfvwm-scrot-key-png.sh > and a button for just a window: > *MyButtons: (2x1+2+0, Title 'Grab PNG', Icon xterm.xpm, \ > Action 'Exec exec myfvwm-scrot-png.sh &') > Ignore the syntax and particulars here; the myfvwm… script could be > used to make any number of actions or changes to settings. > >> A "solution" I'm thinking is to put a cron job with the following command >> xfconf-query -c xfce4-power-manager -p >> /xfce4-power-manager/presentation-mode -s false to repeat it self every >> morning. >> >> Theoretically that should solve the problem of forgetting to change it back. >> >> Doesn't feel like a clean solution. > > Cron has a facility for running commands at every reboot, for example: > @reboot /sbin/kbdrate -r 8 -d 500 -s > As for being a clean solution, the system itself runs scripts to > initialise state that would otherwise persist across reboots, > eg cleaning /tmp. > >> Anyway It isn't a big problem. Usually I do not watch movies at all. >> Just had a leg surgery and I'm going to be bored to death the next >> couple of weeks until i start walking again. > > Good luck! Perhaps you won't miss the facility for long. > >> On 4/2/19 5:09 AM, David Wright wrote: >>> On Mon 01 Apr 2019 at 18:43:33 (+0300), Georgios wrote: >>>> Thanks for your reply. >>>> I already took a look at Caffeine before I send my first email. >>>> The problem with it is that it looks for an app running so I do not >>>> think its a good idea. >>>> I often leave my laptop with a lot of firefox tabs open and expect it to >>>> go to sleep mode or hibernation instead of closing it. >>>> >>>> I will probably have to settle with manually checking presentation mode >>>> although i was hopping for a more automated solution. >>>> >>>> On 4/1/19 6:15 PM, Curt wrote: >>>>> On 2019-04-01, Georgios <gpdsbe+deb...@mailbox.org> wrote: >>>>>> Hi! >>>>>> First of all thanks for the fast reply. >>>>>> >>>>>> Yes I have presentation mode. I didn't even try it to see if its working >>>>>> with hibernate. The problem with that is that its inconvenient to check >>>>>> it and uncheck it all the time. >>>>>> >>>>>> I will inevitably forget it sooner or later. >>> >>> How about watching your movies with an in principle 3-line script: >>> >>> set the presentation mode >>> run the movie >>> revert to non-presentation mode >>> >>>>> Well, that's how you do it, presumably, with xfce power manager, which >>>>> was the question. Obviously, you toggle presentation mode on and off as >>>>> necessary, unless you're watching netflix 24/7, which might curdle your >>>>> brain. >>>>> >>>>> If not, there's 'caffeine'. > > Cheers, > David. >
