[PLUG] Auto "Presentation Mode" when watching a video

John Jason Jordan johnxj at gmx.com
Mon Mar 22 03:29:33 UTC 2021


On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 19:33:27 -0700
TomasK <tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com> dijo:

>AFAIK - this in now the duty of window manager (KDE/GNOME) and the
>application-->windowManager communication works through DBUS.
>
>It works pretty reliably for me in vanilla ubuntu 20.04 and other
>distros with working DBUS.
>
>I am not sure what exactly is zubuntu, and could not be bothered to
>look it up - perhaps switching to KDE/GNOME would fix that for you.

I think he means Xubuntu, which many pronounce 'zubuntu.'

As for the window manager and desktop environment, yes, I think it is
part of Xubuntu and its associated utilities.

While poking at this again today I noticed that the Settings Manager >
Screensaver included the option to change the time before it comes on.
I set it to 300 minutes, and now I no longer have the problem.

Of course, this means that my screensaver doesn't come on for 300
minutes, which might be bad for the screen. But I wonder just how
useful screensavers are with modern LCD displays. I remember they first
appeared when color CRTs first became available. And I remember those
old CRTs getting burn-in after a few years. But I retired a
still-working LCD a year ago that was six years old, and it had no
problems. Do I really need to use a screensaver?



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