[TC!!]

I have a problem where sometimes while watching a movie the screen will dim and it will go into what looks like an energy saving mode. At the same time XBMC normally drops out of full screen. Usually pressing a key on the remote will bring the brightness back + XBMC normally pops back into fullscreen mode itself.

Is there any way I can stop this from happening? I have turned 'Sleep Idle Timeout' set to off.

Also is there anyway to force xbmc to restart automatically if it ever crashes?
For eaxmple to run a shell script which does something like this:
while(1)
{
xbmc
}

That syntax isn't right for a shell script but you get the idea. Finally does anyone know what the --standalone flag does, would it help me in this situation?

[TheBurner]

TC i had a similiar problem it was the power saving options in Ubuntu itself i turned it all off and no longer does it dim

[dandirk]

lol This is happening to me as well though in windows version.

I was puzzled because like you Sleep idle was turned off...

I did find there is a screensaver setup in xbmc... can't remember which option group but its there... I turned it off but have not been able to confirm if this fixes it yet (I just turned off screensaver last night)

[analogue]

execute this before launching xbmc to turn of display power mgmt off. this is probably responsible for the screen blanking:

xset -dpms