how to prevent screen going blank while watching movies

[labbe5]

I have had this problem for a while : watching a movie, then the screen goes blank after 10 minutes, though i have a setting with my video player not to use screensaver while watching a movie.

The only thing that helped is remove xautolock. Since then, my video player is using my setting to stop going blank while watching a movie.

If you are a Dog user, you remove such an app with apt : sudo apt remove xautolock.

You can ask for configuration to be removed as well : sudo apt remove --purge xautolock.

[Flash]

Uh, I thought sudo didn't work in Puppy. Puppy runs as root, so doesn't need sudo. Please explain.

[phat7]

What is xautolock?

[Sailor Enceladus]

I have the option to turn this on and off in Menu -> Desktop -> pupx

I think nic007 reported that changing it this way doesn't stick after reboots though.

[nic007]

Generally the particular video player will have a setting in its preferences to disable screensaver during playback but setting it there does not always stick (Mplayer is problematic but VLC normally works). Tahr has an application called ScreenControl (accessible via the menu) to toggle screensaver on or off, works well. One can also use the commands

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xset off

and

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xset on

to toggle between the two.