[MPlayer-dev-eng] Question for dev's: Does mplayer disable DPMS timeouts? "xset q" looks good, but timeouts never trigger

Ted Pavlic ted at tedpavlic.com
Tue Sep 6 22:31:57 CEST 2011


> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 01:37:34PM -0400, Ted Pavlic wrote:
>> I've toyed with nostop-xscreensaver and
> 
> I think that option accidentally had no effect, can you try attached patch?

The patch works!

mplayer
mplayer -nostop-xscreensaver

both allow DPMS timeouts to be hit. If I add:

mplayer -stop-xscreensaver

then mplayer keeps the monitors on.

So the patch restores the expected behavior.

	Thanks --
	Ted

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Ted Pavlic <ted at tedpavlic.com>


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