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peterson · 03-14-2014, 05:33 AM

I am looking for a way to refresh the active screensaver. I am running the weather-display to retrieve screensaver images, and would like the updated screensaver to be shown.

In theory this works by doing

Code:

lipc-send-event com.lab126.powerd.debug dbg_power_button_pressed

twice (once to turn it on, once to turn it back off). However in my particular case I have a passcode set, so when turning it on it only overlays the passcode input dialog, and when turning it back off it just removes the overlay without refreshing the screensaver.

So I am looking for a way to force a screensaver update. Is there some process that could be killed, triggered, ...? Alternatively, I could temporarily unset the passcode, however I do not know how (see also this other thread).

03-14-2014, 05:33 AM	#1
peterson Connoisseur Posts: 74 Karma: 889004 Join Date: Mar 2014 Device: Kindle PW2	Refresh screensaver? I am looking for a way to refresh the active screensaver. I am running the weather-display to retrieve screensaver images, and would like the updated screensaver to be shown. In theory this works by doing Code: lipc-send-event com.lab126.powerd.debug dbg_power_button_pressed twice (once to turn it on, once to turn it back off). However in my particular case I have a passcode set, so when turning it on it only overlays the passcode input dialog, and when turning it back off it just removes the overlay without refreshing the screensaver. So I am looking for a way to force a screensaver update. Is there some process that could be killed, triggered, ...? Alternatively, I could temporarily unset the passcode, however I do not know how (see also this other thread).