[MPlayer-users] stop-xscreensaver doesn't work anymore

[Roberto Malinverni]

> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: Reimar Döffinger [mailto:Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de] 
> Inviato: domenica 13 gennaio 2008 20.14
> A: MPlayer usage questions, feature requests,bug reports
> Oggetto: Re: [MPlayer-users] stop-xscreensaver doesn't work anymore
> 
> 
> Hello,
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 07:40:01PM +0100, Roberto Malinverni wrote:
> > Is this on purpose? I know that there was recently some 
> modification to
> > the code handling the screensaver.
> > It doesn't work anymore not in my ~/.mplayer/config file nor on the
> > commandline, but mplayer doesn't complain about wrong 
> options or anything
> > else...
> 
> What does stop-screensaver does not work mean? Does the 
> screensaver come
> on or is it always disabled? Or is DPMS the problem?
> Which screensaver do you use? Does it support the 
> XSuspendScreensaver or
> XResetScreensaver API?
> If not, you must disable it some other way, either via a shell script
> wrapper or the -heartbeat-cmd option. Note that this most likely means
> that your screensaver is based on a fundamentally flawed 
> concept, since
> most of these methods disable the screensaver on the PC where 
> MPlayer is
> _executed_, not on the PC where the video is _displayed_ 
> (though most of
> the time those are the same).
> 
> Greetings,
> Reimar Döffinger
> 
Thenks for your answer.
The screensaver comes on during video playback. I use xscreensaver 5.04 (rpm
shipped with fedora 8)
which has always worked fine with "stop-screensaver=yes" in the MPlayer's
config file.
I have no idea regarding its support for XSuspendScreensaver and
XResetScreensaver.
BTW, I tried the -heartbeat-cmd command, but - unless I screwed up something
- even this has no effect.
The commandline was:
mplayer -heartbeat-cmd "echo ddd >/dev/null" dvd://1
I even noticed that in the mplayer console output is missing the line with
the message "found xscreensaver window..."
or similar (sorry I didn't take exact note of this).
BR,
Roberto Malinverni


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