Hi all,
I use Volumio with Pi3, Hifiberry DAC+ and Waveshare 7" touch display. Everything works fine,
but I would like to disable the screensaver so that the display is on all the time.
I tried a number of workarounds I found on the web, but nothing works and the screen goes
black after some minutes (and comes up if I touch the screen).
Today I updated the software.
Is there anybody who was able to switch off this screensaver?
Any help is highly appreciated, thanks in advance.
Note, this also removes the cursor, for that I installed unclutter
sudo apt-get install unclutter
then edited /opt/volumiokiosk.sh
Change line #1, replace "+dpms" by "-dpms"
Change line #2, replace "blank" by "off"
Remove line #3
then added the following line to the end of /etc/xdg/openbox/autostart
@unclutter -idle 0
Tested with a 1080p monitor (TV) connected to a RPI3 and a Pine64 and with an Odroid VU7 (similar to waveio) connected to an Odroid C2.
Regarding unclutter: It is not needed. It suffices to open the file /lib/systemd/system/volumio-kiosk.service and append " – -nocursor" to the line “ExecStart=/usr/bin/startx /etc/X11/Xsession /opt/volumiokiosk.sh” so it looks like
I myself prefer to copy /lib/systemd/system/volumio-kiosk.service to /etc/systemd/system/volumio-kiosk.service
cp -a /lib/systemd/system/volumio-kiosk.service /etc/systemd/system/volumio-kiosk.service
and alter the file in /etc/systemd/system/ which takes precendence over the same named file in /lib/systemd/system/. You can do this with nano or
sed -i -e 's/\/opt\/volumiokiosk.sh/\/opt\/volumiokiosk.sh -- -nocursor/g' /etc/systemd/system/volumio-kiosk.service
P.S. The touch display plugin on github has already been updated accordingly but unfortunately that version of the plugin is not available in the plugin manager of the UI.