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theOtherCharles

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Registered: 2018-01-05

Posts: 30

Toggling presentation mode from the keyboard

This might make a useful addition to the documentation.

Presentation mode turns off the screen saver and automatic locking. It is nice while you are watching a movie or giving a presentation.

Ordinarily you can access it from the upper panel, power manager plugin. You may have to enable it: right click on the power manager plugin, go to properties, and enable "Show 'Presentation mode' indicator:".

However you may want to toggle it on or off in a script. If so:

xfconf-query -c xfce4-power-manager -n -p /xfce4-power-manager/presentation-mode -T

That works fine in a terminal window as well.

Now, suppose you want to assign that to a keystroke, say <Alt>p? Do this:

xfconf-query -v -c xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts -n -p "/commands/custom/<Alt>p" -t string -s "xfconf-query -c xfce4-power-manager -n -p /xfce4-power-manager/presentation-mode -T"

I welcome suggestions for improvement.