Disabling the screensaver on Ubuntu 14.04
In Ubuntu Linux for some years there has been a great little utility to disable/enable the screensaver called caffeine. In the latest version the developer decided to remove the applet altogether from the tray. The application basically works in the background and detects if an application is in full screen or not.
But as seen in this discussion here there are many of us that relied on that simple way of manually turning on and off the screensaver quickly. The developer is unwilling to revert back to the previous functionality, which he/she is entitled to do so. I have found a round about way to supplement the current functionality of caffeine by using custom keyboard shortcuts.
There are two drawbacks to this method;
- The screensaver does not revert back to on upon reboot (may be a desired functionality for some use cases)
- There is still no indicator to tell you if it is disabled or not