[maemo-developers] R: Can't force display light to stay on forever?

[From: Frantisek Dufka]

Owen Williams wrote:
> Is there a good way of doing this temporarily, for instance while
> playing back video?  Can I do it in python? 

You need to periodically call osso_display_blanking_pause in libosso
http://maemo.org/api_refs/4.1/libosso-2.16-1/
http://maemo.org/api_refs/4.1/libosso-2.16-1/group__Devstate.html#gbd82d7b0160e26cd15479f2685697322

Not sure if there is python binding but it is quite likely.

Frantisek