Inhibiting blanking/locking while video is running (was Re: Removing disable idle system screenlock as default behaviour for Plasma 5)

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2015-04-27 at 16:39 +0100, Piotr Gbyliczek wrote:
> On Monday 27 April 2015 16:31:30 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > As I tried to say, my take on this is that the problem should be dealt
> > with at another level. Blanking/locking the screen is a desktop policy
> > issue. It should not be left to the individual apps to decide whether to
> > implement something reasonable or not. I would ask for a *global* switch
> > (we can argue about what the default should be) that allows the user to
> > inhibit blanking/locking while a video is running. It may be that the
> > condition "video is running in some window" is not easy to detect
> > reliably, and maybe that's why it hasn't been done for X Window
> > environments, but we can dream.
> 
> Not sure about others, but I do employ feature of screen corners, with one 
> configured to lock immediately, and other to  stop screen from locking.  Works 
> fine IMHO.

That's fine as long as a) you remember which corner is which, and b) it
actually works correctly. In my experience this sort of thing is not
reliable, i.e. sometimes you can be shoving the cursor into a corner
without anything happening.

poc