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[thomson]

The attached is a slight alteration on Embeem's screensave package. It will now blink the power LED when activated. By default it will activate after the picture has been paused for 30 seconds (configurable via a -t option). The source is included.

[zollymonsta]

Hi Thomson,

Ooo I've been looking for something like this.

How do I set this up to run all the time in the background?

also

[TiVo [p0] /var/hack/bin]# screensave -t

just gives me...

screensave: option requires an argument -- t

There doesn't appear to be a readme file with the arguments. Just wondering what they are?

Just tried it without any args and works good

[thomson]

How do I set this up to run all the time in the background?

To start in the background just add the following to your rc.sysinit.author (the parameter after the -t is the timeout):

/var/hack/bin/screensave -t 60 >/dev/null 2>&1 &

Technically you do not need the ">/dev/null 2>&1" stuff as the application does not have any output, but it helps to get into the habit...

">/dev/null" writes the standard output to the null device (ie it throws it away), and "2>&1" writes all error messages (file descriptor 2) to the same place that the standard output (file descriptor 1) is going... ie it also gets thrown away.

[zollymonsta]

To start in the background just add the following to your rc.sysinit.author (the parameter after the -t is the timeout):

/var/hack/bin/screensave -t 60 >/dev/null 2>&1 &

Technically you do not need the ">/dev/null 2>&1" stuff as the application does not have any output, but it helps to get into the habit...

">/dev/null" writes the standard output to the null device (ie it throws it away), and "2>&1" writes all error messages (file descriptor 2) to the same place that the standard output (file descriptor 1) is going... ie it also gets thrown away.

Thanks.. you da man!! I've suggested this be added to the final OzTiVo iso image. Just rebooting now.. *crosses fingers*