screen saver

[vaporhat]

I have a screen saver enabled within XP that works, however once XL is open on that machine the screen saver does not come on. Is there a switch within XL to turn a screen saver on/off?

I have a USB touchscreen in the bedroom and the brightness it too bright for sleeping. While it has an on/off switch on it, since it is a USB it take a few moments for the PC to recognize the device and it's annoying waiting for it..

[billberet]

there is nothing inside xlobby that you can turn on or off for that.

with me, i also have a Q1 tablet, and usually the monitor turns off after 20 min of no use when in windows, but xlobby
keeps the monitor on all the time, and the Q1 has no monitor off button, so i have to shut the whole thing down, not a big fan of that.
but at least the screen saver works on the Q1, but all that means is the monitor goes to black, it does not turn off.

Does your monitor have a sleep setting, where the screen turns off when not in use, all my monitors do that in windows, but not when xlobby is running.
it's definetely an issue they will have to address. (xlobby)

[vaporhat]

I do not believe there is a sleep setting on my touchscreen, just on/off.

Is there a way to program an event to force XP into screen saver mode?

[kris]

I just set my windows power settings to set screen to standby after 60minutes.
I have noticed however that this works correct in some installs and doesn't work in others
strangely enough sometimes it seems to be linked to the actuals page the user is on in XL.

Does the screen go into standby if you have all application (including XL) minimized ?
You could also find a commandline tool that forces monitor standby and put that in an event linked to a button.

kris

[wesblack]

We are going to add a check box in the Alt+F2 settings under options to enable or disable the screen saver, this will only work as long as you are not playing a Movie or Video, streaming Video content.





Wes Black \ Calrad

[Bill Lott]

Awesome - Thanks Wes and Steve

[vaporhat]

that would be fantastic. Thanks.

[lpg]

We are going to add a check box in the Alt+F2 settings under options to enable or disable the screen saver, this will only work as long as you are not playing a Movie or Video, streaming Video content.





Wes Black \ Calrad

Wes has this ever been implemented? I could not find the checkbox.

I have windows 7 loaded on a tablet with Andy's iphone screen, way cool, I cannot get the screen saver to work. Is there something else I should do.

[wesblack]

It is not in the current version. Ok, trying to get this on the next V3 release. There is a work around. Create a trigger that works using the in-activity timer this will launch any screen saver file in windows, for example: c:\window\system32\scrnsave.scr.

So basically if no activity is detected in xLobby after a certain preset time a event is triggered that launches the screensaver.

Restart xLobby after creating this type of trigger.





Wes Black \ Calrad

[lpg]

Great, Thanks Wes.

I found out you need a -s or a /s switch so it's scrnsave.scr -s