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    Stop the screensaver!

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      Gabev
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      I had the same problem where. I stumbled across this thread, check out the answer given by JimmyN… it helped me at least.

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        m0111k @cowboysdude
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        @cowboysdude tried that, screen still went standby… any clue for fix?
        ps im newb here, how can i remove xscreensaver when it doesnt work? Thanks

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          Mykle1 Project Sponsor Module Developer @m0111k
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          @m0111k said in Stop the screensaver!:

          ps im newb here, how can i remove xscreensaver when it doesnt work? Thanks

          sudo apt-get remove xscreensaver

          However, I don’t think xscreensaver is capable of putting your display into standby. That is likely your system or settings.

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            Anthony Project Sponsor @Mykle1
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            @Mykle1
            Is there any possibillity that Lucy interacts somehow with the screen saver? I am asking this because I have installed xscreensaver and working good but if I have lucy enabled I get the black screen and I must move the mouse to sho the MM again. Just a thought!

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              Mykle1 Project Sponsor Module Developer @Anthony
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              @Anthony

              Perhaps, but I’ve never seen this behavior or heard about it before this. I will see if I can reproduce that here.

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              • Mykle1M Offline
                Mykle1 Project Sponsor Module Developer
                last edited by Mykle1

                @Anthony

                I’m not seeing this behavior at all. You can clearly see that I have xscreensaver running with the “Screen Saver DIsabled” but I can’t reproduce what it happening to you. Lucy responds normally and no black screen issue. If you say “SHOW MODULES” does Lucy show them?

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                Edit: Something seems to be amiss. The forum isn’t allowing me to post an image at the moment.

                Picture below.

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                  Mykle1 Project Sponsor Module Developer
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                    Anthony Project Sponsor @Mykle1
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                    @Mykle1
                    Thank you for your reply. I haven’t try to see if Lucy works when I see the black screen because I can’t see the “Say, ‘Hello Lucy’” message and because of the latency problems I have I don’t know when it recognizes the keyword and wait for commands. My guess is that it will work but when I am finished with my mirrorsetup I will hung it on the wall so I won’t have mouse and keyboard connected to move or press a button for the mirror to show. Also the black screen appears not only in the standby mode. Last night I left the mirror showing my page 1 modules and in the morning I saw the black screen again. Moved the mouse and evertything showed up.

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                      sdetweil @Anthony
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                      @Anthony said in Stop the screensaver!:

                      Moved the mouse and evertything showed up.

                      that means screensaver kicked in… MM doesn’t do module visibility by mouse movement…

                      Sam

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                        Anthony Project Sponsor @sdetweil
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                        @sdetweil
                        I agree. But it doesn’t happen when I have voice disabled in my config. And I realized that it also doesn’t happen with voice enabled and MMM-ImageSlideShow showing my pics. Maybe because the pictures change every 10 seconds. But if I have voice enabled and MM shows only clock, calendar, weather etc after 30 minutes screen goes black.

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