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I want to watch a movie with my laptop how I can disable with xmonad that it turn off the screen if vlc or some other app is running is running. Is there some functions what I can used to prevent this?

Can I do there something with Xmonad or is it depending to my X? Any ideas?

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    which program is inducing the black screen - most likely something like xscreensaver or some power manager. I have xfce4-power-manager - there I just switch to presentation mode.
    – epsilonhalbe
    Apr 28, 2013 at 17:58
  • It should come from my X server, but I want to know if I can do something with my xmonad configuration if write some code there. I'll check this if know other way thanks
    – Azd325
    Apr 28, 2013 at 18:15

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Reset to default
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I have these lines in my ~/.xinitrc file:

# turn off Display Power Management Service (DPMS)
xset -dpms
setterm -blank 0 -powerdown 0

# turn off black Screensaver
xset s off

This prevents the display from turning off during watching a movie (I'm also using XMonad).

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  • But I think is better if I put this in a script and used if I need it because I think in the xinitrc is not the best place for it. If every time this dpms disabled is
    – Azd325
    Apr 29, 2013 at 13:36
  • How I can enable the default again?
    – Azd325
    May 5, 2013 at 7:21
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If you want your screensaver to be paused only when you watch a movie you can use xssproxy. It's available as a debian package as well as a NixOS package.

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