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    • Mykle1
      Mykle1 Project Sponsor Module Developer @m0111k last edited by

      @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 last edited by

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        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 last edited by

          @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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          • Mykle1
            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 last edited by

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                Anthony Project Sponsor @Mykle1 last edited by

                @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 last edited by

                  @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…

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                    Anthony Project Sponsor @sdetweil last edited by

                    @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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                      sdetweil @Anthony last edited by sdetweil

                      @Anthony and if MM is not running at all, what happens?

                      I run voice, and imageslideshow and don’t see this. If I shut down MM, screen will stay in forever

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                        Anthony Project Sponsor @sdetweil last edited by

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                        Mine too. If MM is shut down my screen is always on. This also happen if modules with movement are shown in the MM like MMM-ImageSlideShow which have pictures rotating. My screen goes black only when I have modules like clock,calendar,forunecookie,rfacs etc shown. I don’t know if a specific module cause this. For example I now have my MM on for 5 days without black screen and the modules shown are clock, calendar, stats, compliments, news, pictures and weather. If I hide pictures module or replace it with rfacts for example in about half an hour I will get the screensaver black screen.

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