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

[Dick Steffens]

On 3/21/21 8:29 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 19:33:27 -0700
> TomasK <tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com> dijo:
>
>> <...>
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>> 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.'

Yep. My bad.

> 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.

I've got mine set to 30 minutes now. I think that will work for most of 
the woodworking YouTube videos I'm watching.

> 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?

Using power management, it does mean the monitor drops to a lower power 
usage for all those times I'm AFK.

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Regards,

Dick Steffens