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Re: Unity needs a "presentation mode" (inbuilt way to inhibit screensaver)

 

This is something that Should be in Unity/ Gnome and not in third party
applications. the more third party you add the dicier security gets.


On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Brandon Watkins <bwat47@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I know, I did mention the caffeine applet in my post. Problem is caffeine
> is 3rd party and hasn't seen any development in 2 years... So its not a
> good solution. We need an officially supported out of the box solution for
> this.
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> On 19/02/2013 01:19, Brandon Watkins wrote:
>> > Unity really needs an easy inbuilt "presention mode" where you could
>> either hit
>> > a key combination or use an inbuilt indicator to completely indicate
>> > screensaver/screen blanking/suspend. There are many use cases for this,
>> such as
>> > watching videos.
>>
>> <
>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/35445/is-there-an-inhibit-sleep-indicator-for-unity
>> >
>> says that there's the caffeine app indicator which does that.
>>
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>> Kind regards,
>> Loong Jin
>>
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