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IIRC, xscreensaver did this when I had it installed on R5F27 as well. If there was no input before the screensaver activated, it wouldn't deactivate on input. On R5.5, xscreensaver always worked perfectly. I'm not sure what R5.5 did to make xscreensaver work so well.

I have found that xscreensaver needs to finish loading before mythfronend starts on my old R5.5 system for it to work properly. I thought this might be the case here too but I am getting mixed results. In other words, this works sometimes... other times (on a reboot say) it does not.

Can I ask them others try this too please?

Here's what I did to test it:

1) Made /home/mythtv/delay.sh (see below)
2) Made it executable and owned by root
($ chmod a+x /home/mythtv/delay.sh
#chown root:root /home/mythtv/delay.sh)
3) Loaded up /usr/LH/bin/LinHES-run
4) Replaced the line that reads STARTCMD="/usr/bin/mythfrontend -d -l /var/log/mythtv/mythfrontend.log" with a line calling that script. In my case it was STARTCMD="/home/mythtv/delay.sh"

5) Rebooted. Now X loads, then xscreensaver's splash screen comes up, nothing happens for 10 sec then mythfrontend starts.

Here is /home/mythtv/delay.sh:

My xscreensaver is set for 2 min. I wait 5 and see that the screensaver is active. If I flick the mouse, it come out. If I type a key on the keybaord, it comes out. Other times, nothing brings it out... I would really appreciate others testing this whole delay concept and reporting back.

I think I figured it out! I believe it's the fault of unclutter!

You don't need to do any of my above post to get this to work. Simply do the following:

1) Comment out the line in /usr/LH/bin/LinHES-run that reads: /usr/X11R6/bin/unclutter -root -idle 0 -jitter 400 -noevents &

2) Add a startup line to your ~/.fluxbox/apps for xscreensaver before your line starting the LinHES-run script.

That should do it. My clue to this was the excessive CPU usage from unclutter when xscreensaver was on. The screensaver pyro is very CPU friendly and show consume very little CPU time when running:

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Anyway, give this a try and see what you think. It's been working for me :)

Update your system and activate xscreensaver from the service menu. Third page under the advanced option.
Seems to work correctly here.

OK... there is still this pesky problem about nvidia-beta not getting removed automatically:

As to your original question about xscreensaver. I rebooted, allowed it to come on, moved the mouse and it did come out. I'll test it more extensively tomorrow and report back.

Major problem on reboot!

So I did this:

Everything worked after a reboot... what am I doing wrong? It seems like there are conflict with the standard and the beta nvidia packages.

graysky: The dependencies with the VDPAU packages and the NVIDIA driver packages were all screwy until just today, I think. See my task about VDPAU dependencies, which has now been fixed. Now none of the VDPAU packages require the -beta drivers, and they will all work with the 180.29 non-beta drivers. You should do a package sync, remove the -beta packages (use pacman -R --nodeps to force-remove them if you have to), install nvidia and nvidia-utils, then do an upgrade.

Cool I can try that... I actually want the beta driver though since they have improved vdpau support - particularly 180.37. BTW, here is the procedure to get the vdpau packages and the beta drivers installed from a clean install of R6.00.07 I tested last night which might be outdated now if you're saying they tweaked the dependencies on the stable driver: