Hack: prevent screensaver from crashing fullscreen games on Ubuntu (II: xscreensaver)

I realised that this doesn't work if gnome-screensaver is disabled and xscreensaver put in its place.

In that case, preventing the screensaver from starting (and locking the system) during a fullscreen game can be accomplished with the following script:

#!/bin/bash
xscreensaver-command -exit
[COMMAND TO START GAME OR PROGRAM HERE]
xscreensaver -no-splash

[Ubuntu 10.04]

Hack: prevent screensaver from crashing fullscreen games on Ubuntu

Playing the Amnesia demo on Ubuntu, but after 5 mins the screensaver turns on and then the whole system locks up.

It seems that with some fullscreen games this happens.

Hack:

(from stoogiebuncho on ubuntuforums.org)

Create a shell-script:

#!/bin/bash

gconftool-2 --set /apps/gnome-screensaver/idle_activation_enabled --type bool 0

[COMMAND TO START GAME OR PROGRAM HERE]

gconftool-2 --set /apps/gnome-screensaver/idle_activation_enabled --type bool 1exit 0

And then make the shell-script executable, and link to it instead of to the game binary in the Games menu.

Seems to work so far.

[Ubuntu 10.04]