How to stop screensaver from starting up

[klappnase]

Jeff Epler <jepler at unpythonic.net> wrote in message news:<mailman.1059423822.25875.python-list at python.org>...

Thanks for the feedback,
 
> For systems using xscreensaver, see xscreensaver-command(1).
> 
> You could use
>     xscreensaver-command -throttle
> to force screen blanking (not screensaver) when the system is idle
> or 
>     xscreensaver-command -exit
> to force the screensaver process to exit.  In the former case, you would
> use
>     xscreensaver-command -unthrottle
> to restart the screensaver, and in the latter case
>     xscreensaver -nosplash
> in the latter.
> 
> This is not robust if multiple processes all try to manipulate the
> screensaver without some additional kind of locking.
> 
> Jeff

I know this, but what I had in mind was, if there is a way to disable
the screensaver directly from within python/tkinter while a certain
process inside my application is running (it is the recording issue I
have posted here a while ago, where it seems like memory leaks occur
while recording when a screensaver starts up).
The basic problem with the xscreensaver command is of course that it
will not work if kde-screensavers are used.
I am sorry if this is a silly question, I just thought it might be
easier to disable the screensaver while recording than to try a
workaround for the snack recording function; maybe what I want is
simply not possible.

Best regards

Michael