11.04display
I generally watch lot of lengthy videos on YouTube. I always experience a problem because the screensaver is activated every 5 minutes.
I would like to know how to disable the screensaver while watching flash videos. I know, that I can change the screensaver timer or completely disable the screensaver. But I don't want to do that. I just want to disable it while I am watching full screen videos on my browser.
Update: I am using google chrome.
You can do this with the VLC media player:
Caffeine is a program that does what you want power management to-do.
You can install caffeine by adding the ppa. you can do that in
System --> administration --> Update manager --> settings --> then tap the "other sources" tab --> add
ppa:caffeine-developers/ppa
And now press the reload button.
or you can do it in a terminal:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:caffeine-developers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
Then install caffeine by typing in a terminal:
sudo apt-get install caffeine
But you could also try to set the Power management settings as system default by pressing "make default", that worked for me in 11.04 and 10.04.1.
Best Answer
You'll have to patch the flash-player to send the appropriate signals, like Totem does. Unfortunately, most people have to use Adobe Flash, which is proprietary software.
But did you know that Totem supports watching videos from Youtube? It does deactivate the screensaver when you're playing stuff. You find it in the dropdown list that normally says playlist in the right-panel of Totem. Hope that helps. :)