[MPlayer-users] feature req: keep sceensaver away

Jan Engelhardt jengelh at linux01.gwdg.de
Thu Oct 24 13:47:02 CEST 2002


>> I belive that mplayer automatically disables the screensaver unless you run
>> xscreensaver.
>not automatically, Henric!

well at least it doesnot stop KDE's screensaver

>
>lode leroy:
>
>RTFM, search the archives!
>
>-stop_xscreensaver or add stop_xscreensaver=yes to your
> ~/.mplayer/config.
>
>Search the archives, there may be known but yet unsolved issue that
>restarted xscreensaver blocks some devices. You may write a wrapper
>for mplayer:
>
>#!/bin/sh
>killall -STOP xscreensaver
>mplayer $@
>killall -CONT xscreensaver


- Jan Engelhardt




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