Any way to disable the screensaver while emerging?

[Beetle B.]

It would be nice if I could set it to deactivate the screensaver (or better yet, set it to blank), while Portage is compiling software. My screensaver is quite computationally heavy...
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Beetle B.

Please update the table of equivalents.
A Firefox guide.

[morodoch]

If you're using xscreensaver, check the manual for xscreensaver-command, it allows control from the command line. You could probably wrap emerge in a function / script to automatically do this.
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