[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Use XScreenSaverSuspend if supported

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de
Fri Dec 21 10:00:39 CET 2007


Hello,
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 08:00:49AM +0100, Adam Tlałka wrote:
[...]
> So while using XScreenSaverSuspend according to a) screensaver could be
> forcibly activated by other app and as stated in b) XScreenSaverSuspend
> call will not deactivate already active screen saving mode - so if you
> start mplayer from some script there will be no screen saver
> deactivation.

XScreenSaverSuspend actually seems like the much more sensible behaviour
to me, why should we e.g. disallow explicit locking of the screen via the
screensaver application just because MPlayer is running?

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger



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