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

[Salatiel Filho]

On 1/14/08, Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>
wrote:
>
> Hello,
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 12:15:45PM +0100, Roberto Malinverni wrote:
> [...]
> > 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.
>
> Yes, but that code was about 80 lines of code just to support one single
> screensaver. With that approach we'd probably end up with a thousand lines
> of
> code and still wouldn't support all screensavers.
>
> > I have no idea regarding its support for XSuspendScreensaver and
> > XResetScreensaver.
>
> Seems it is non-existent. Reportedly the ubuntu version does support it
> though. No idea.
>
> > 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
>
> Well, how is "echo ddd >/dev/null" supposed to stop your screensaver?
> See the xscreensaver FAQ or the latest version of the man page for a
> command to disable it.
>
> Greetings,
> Reimar Döffinger
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I have the same problem here. Screensaver comes up when i am using mplayer.
I am using xscreensaver 4.24 and ubuntu 7.10.
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