[MPlayer-users] mplayer prevents (wakes up?) DPMS timeouts; how to prevent?

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:03:32AM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> >>If I'm playing a video with mplayer (or ffplay), how can I tell
> >>mplayer to *not* disable DPMS so that my screen will be blanked/etc.
> >>on schedule?
> 
> On 07.09.11 11:40, Ted Pavlic wrote:
> >FYI, as of an SVN commit yesterday, the "-nostop-xscreensaver" option
> >works again, and so:
> >
> >mplayer -nostop-xscreensaver
> >
> >(or setting "stop-xscreensaver = no" in ~/.mplayer/config) will prevent
> >mplayer from disabling DPMS timeouts in X11.
> 
> Does it apply for Xserver blanking/DPMS timeouts? afaik the
> "stop-xscreensaver" only affects xscreensaver process, not Xserver's
> blanking (including DPMS).

That was how it behaved (though not even that properly), but that did
not match the documentation at all.
So it is now changed to apply to all these, also since there is no
sensible way anymore to affect only one specifically.