Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]


Groups > comp.sys.acorn.programmer > #2128

Re: Disable screensavers

From Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net>
Subject Re: Disable screensavers
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Date 2012-09-03 23:10 +0100
Message-ID <52c99e237achrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> (permalink)
References <52c9957508steve@revi11.plus.com>
Organization None

Show all headers | View raw


In article <52c9957508steve@revi11.plus.com>,
   Ste (news) <steve@revi11.plus.com> wrote:
> So, is there a way to programmatically stop the screensaver kicking
> in (and stop it if it's already running) and then restore it later?
> As in, fully automatic and restores back to the same configuration.
> I don't want to just smash the screensaver and then leave it to the
> user to configure it back on again...

Would simulating a key or mouse event be seen by the screen saver,
causing it to simply wake up again? If that was so, just give it a
nudge every couple of minutes.

-- 
Chris Johnson

Back to comp.sys.acorn.programmer | Previous | NextPrevious in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread


Thread

Disable screensavers "Ste (news)" <steve@revi11.plus.com> - 2012-09-03 21:35 +0100
  Re: Disable screensavers Martin Bazley <martin.bazley@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2012-09-03 22:23 +0100
  Re: Disable screensavers Justin Fletcher <gerph@gerph.org> - 2012-09-03 22:46 +0100
    Re: Disable screensavers "Ste (news)" <steve@revi11.plus.com> - 2012-09-05 13:01 +0100
  Re: Disable screensavers Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-09-03 23:10 +0100
  Re: Disable screensavers Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> - 2012-09-03 23:12 +0100
  Re: Disable screensavers spampling <spam.pling@btinternet.com> - 2012-09-03 23:25 +0100
    Re: Disable screensavers "Ste (news)" <steve@revi11.plus.com> - 2012-09-05 12:58 +0100

csiph-web