Removing disable idle system screenlock as default behaviour for Plasma 5

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2015-04-26 at 14:21 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 12:43:08 +0200
> Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
> > Am 26.04.2015 um 12:28 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan:
> > > Slightly OT: video players can prevent locking, but can they
> > > prevent the screen going dark? This happens to me all the time when
> > > watching a long video.
> 
> I know that mplayer disables dpms settings automatically (and by
> default) when playing a video (or even only audio!). I also know that
> when watching videos on YouTube (in firefox, using whatever the default
> backend player) the dpms settings do *not* get disabled, and the screen
> may go into standby in the middle of an interesting scene. :-) I
> wouldn't know about other video players (I use only mplayer), but I
> guess that they should implement this feature also (if they're worth
> their wit anyway).
[...]
> Just put "xset -dpms" somewhere in your login (or bootup) scripts, and
> live happily everafter. :-)

Thanks for the detailed answer. I'm mainly interested in Youtube videos,
most of which are quite long courseware sessions on my desktop. I
hesitate to turn off screen blanking entirely but I guess it's something
I'll have to get used to.

poc