[MPlayer-dev-eng] xscreensaver & cdrom blocking

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 07:34:44PM +0100, Jindrich Makovicka wrote:
> There is another problem with the xscreensaver support: after playing a 
> movie from a CD, the xscreensaver is respawned in the CWD, which is 
> usually the cdrom mountpoint. This blocks a subsequent umount. Maybe we 
> should chdir to some safer point first (x11_common.c):
> 
> - system("xscreensaver -no-splash &");
> + system("cd /; xscreensaver -no-splash &");

Killing and restarting xscreensaver is just dumb. We should send it
SIGSTOP and SIGCONT.

Rich