[MPlayer-users] mplayer and -stop-xscreensaver

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On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 08:41:29 +0200
Francois du Toit <fpdutoit.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, after further investigation, it seems that mplayer does not
> stop the xscreensaver process. I don't know what it does, but it
> works, just takes a long time to start playing.

Quickly browsing through the source, it seems that it locates the
(probably hidden) xscreensaver window, and pings it...

Can't say why it takes forever, I don't use xscreensaver at all.