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

[Piotr Gbyliczek]

On Monday 27 April 2015 20:03:16 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > 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.

Not my mileage, it works for  me in F21. 

As for remembering, aren't you now trying to justify your opinion rather than 
discuss it ? If one have problems remembering which corner does what, I think 
he has more pressing problems than screen locking. But if it helps, use left 
corner for "lock", and right for "restrict locking".

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