[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: mplayer and xscreensaver problems

[gabucino at mplayerhq.hu]

> And I made the point that xscreensaver should have the feature to
> optionally look for a configurable list of X clients connected to the
> X server (such as movie players) and never start the screen saver if
> any of those are running.
Yes. There is the distributed.net "cracking" client, which uses idle CPU
to crack a key. See what would happen if programs would implement a feature
to minimize their CPU usage in favor of dnetc :)


> It makes MUCH more sense than requiring
> every movie player to know how to properly disable the screensaver
> program, or perform awful hacks like the one you mentioned.
Yes, xscreensaver is unfortunately completely dumb.
Anyway, if one really wants to "save" the screen, there's DPMS..
If one wants to watch nice (dumb) screensavers instead of
working/gaming/going away from computer, use xscreensaver, but NOT MPlayer.

-- 
Gabucino

/ Worshipping Niedermayer 4ever /
"Do you always look at it encoded?" (C) D. R. F.
"minden lehet. ez nem." (c) A'rpi
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