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Wintermute0110 / plugin.program.AEL.dev

Emulator frontend and app launcher for Kodi
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[Feature Request] Disable Kodi's internal screen blanker #145

Closed Hybrid512 closed 3 years ago

Hybrid512 commented 3 years ago

Hi,

I don't know if this is feasible or not but in Kodi, you can install many blanker addons with things like slideshows, videos, ... These addons are handled by Kodi's own screen blanking events so I guess they can be enabled/disabled by asking Kodi to do so.

These blankers are not a problem by themselves for AEL since they don't appear while you're playing but, they run anyway and when you leave a game, you return to the running blanker and not to the Kodi UI. Those blankers don't react to joypad events, only to mouse or keyboard events so unless you press a key, they don't go away.

I know you don't want to implement "platform specific code" as you said in #69 but this time, this is not to disable the system screen blanking but the internal Kodi's own screen blanker.

Would be great that each time a game is started, the blanker is disabled in Kodi then re-enabled once AEL gets the focus back.

Best regards.

Wintermute0110 commented 3 years ago

That option already exists, go to AEL settings, tab Advanced. Note that this is only for the Kodi screensaver. #69 refers to external screensavers.

Hybrid512 commented 3 years ago

Hi,

I saw that option but I thought I tried it and it didn't work but it was my mistake. Works as expected so closing this ticket. Thx