Touching when screen off constitutes action

[wcndave]

The screen gets hot and can also suffer burn out left on, however when in screen save mode, touching the screen to wake it actually carries out the action. Ie when playing it changes the screen mode to full screen art. Any way to have it just wake the screen up with first touch as you'd expect?

[wcndave]

I realised I have left off some important info... I am running Squeezos. What this means for example is that if I touch the screen to wake it up and before the screen went blank it was in a list of music, it will start playing whatever I touched when the screen was blank. This gets very annoying very quickly

Any ideas?

[roobarb!]

Any ideas?

Touch the screen near the top?

This happens because SqueezePlay isn't in control of the display; it's the X server that's handling it. You could try setting a screensaver in SqueezePlay that activates shortly before (or at the same time) as the screen blank. That way the screensaver would 'soak up' the touch.

Never tried it myself, but it feels like it might work.

[wcndave]

Thanks.

Touching at the top can either power off, or loads the context menu of "play all by artist" etc.

Not sure I understand about the X-server having control. Whatever makes the screen go blank, and makes the screen come back, has control. Why would it then pass through to the underlying running program that touch command?

I will check about screensaver, however I thought that's what was blanking the screen in the first place!