How to auto disable screensaver/blanking while watching video from web browser
 

Hello to everybody. Tested with multiple linux distros like debian, Mint, Ubuntu and some others (2-3 latest releases) and different hardware. Has anyone manage to have screensaver or screen blanking auto disabled when watching a video through a web browser? Like vlc does for example or like other OS act. Thanks in advance.

hello electrovalent, please take a look at "caffeine", a small systray utility that will do what you want.

what distro are you on atm? caffeine might or might not be in the repos.

Thank you for the suggestion but caffeine is not able to do that. It has difficulties between screensavers and power management systems. Thats why i mentioned VLC which doesn't bother if i use xscreensaver or gnome-screensaver for example. I am experimenting different linux distros.

for each distro, you can write yourself a little script that does what you want.
all those utilities can be accessed without root priv's and most probably also via command line.
maybe even a simple "keep-alive signal" is enough, like hitting an (otherwise unused) key every minute.

I am looking for a way to have this automaticaly enabled. The script you describe if i understand well, will have to be (enabled/disabled) by me. If i forgot to disable after watching something the screen will stay active forever.

I read recently that is is now a daemon and not there is no "systray utility" any more.

^the AUR has both versions.

electrovalent, such a script would check if certain multimedia applications are running and emit the signal only then.
(to check whether actual video is being played back is a little harder).

be aware that most distros have at least 2, maybe even 3 screensaver apps: the one built into the X server, the DE's screensaver (and maybe the power manager).

How much harder?:) If i could monitor/record video output then xdg-utils could do the rest. Maybe..

sorry, you lost me there.