I’m finding lots and lots of threads about preventing the screen from turning off, but I want to do exactly the opposite: _Not_ to disable XScreensaver while Kodi is running.
The reason is that I’d like to run Kodi in the background on a normal desktop system, and it resetting xprintidle’s idle counter (which wraps XScreensaver libraries) every 5s is preventing the system from power saving. I already have a script that handles suspending the screensaver during media playback, I don’t need anything else that does so – especially when it also does it while not actually playing any media and just sitting in a menu.
So, any way to disable this behavior? Paradoxically, it actually continues while Kodi enables its own screensaver, and I can’t find anything else relating to the issue due to the volume of threads trying to do the opposite. Otherwise, this is a complete dealbreaker for me.
(Or if someone here knows the code well – would this be easily patchable? Is Kodi hard to compile?)