Hey Ted,
I may have missed the point, but I have used caffeine to keep my displays awake.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/tech-tip-keep-your-monitor-awake-caffein...
It's in the Repo's on Ubuntu :) with an indicator plugin.
Regards
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Ted Harding Ted.Harding@wlandres.net wrote:
Greetings All! Background: I have my screen set to blank out after 5 minutes of user inactivity. Fine for its purpose, since if I'm working at the computer I shall be generating key-presses, mouse actions, etc., far more frequently than that! On the other hand, if I'm not doing anything, then there is not excessively long screen on-time.
However, it can be irritating if I'm watching a video or similar, since if I forget to (e.g.) tap on the Ctrl key (which resets the timeout) then the screen will go blank on me just when I don't want it to!
So what I'm looking to do is set up a script which would send an interrupt, say every minute, which would be interpreted by the OS as a key-press or similar. Then I could forget about it until I've done watching.
Is there some signal that can be sent using
kill <signal> ...
which would do that? I've not been able to suss out anything suitable.
With thanks, Ted.
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