Preventing screensaver when playing movie?

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 11:05:42 PST 2008


On 26/02/2008, Harald Braumann <harry at unheit.net> wrote:
>  > How can the media player achieve this with xorg?
>
> AFAIK xine sends fake shift key press events. I guess this is the
>  safest way of fooling any programme that tries to do something after an
>  inactivity time-out.

‎That could be problematic with Sticky Keys users, like myself. I
might just hit Enter in an email, and have it registered as
Shift-Enter and therefore sent, when I do not want that.

Dotan Cohen

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