[MPlayer-users] MPlayer can't disable the screensaver in Arch Linux, Fedora 18

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It doesn't work here either. If you `man gnome-screensaver ' there you may find is no '-p' argument at all. It's interesting to ask why this `gnome-screensaver -p` is there in the document. Anyway `I use gnome-screensaver -d' instead, but am still not sure it works. gnome-screensaver is a bad design. It's absolutely unix-like: too simple and too stupid.
At 2012-11-11 02:51:52,"piruthiviraj natarajan" <piruthiviraj at gmail.com> wrote:
>In SMPlayer there is an option to disable the screensaver, but it does not
>work.
>The tick box is checked by default but still it doesn't work.
>
>SMPlayer > Options> Preferences > General > Video > Disable Screensaver.
>
>Steps to Reproduce:
>1. Open SMPlayer
>2. Load a Movie
>3. Wait.... wait... SCREENSAVER.... (ruins the movie).
>But vlc works fine in gnome 3.6 and xfce4.
>
>If I use xfce with a edit in "~/.mplayer/config" as
>heartbeat-cmd="xscreensaver-command
>-deactivate > /dev/null" it works good.
>
>But if I add  heartbeat-cmd="gnome-screensaver-command -p &>/dev/null", It
>doesn't work in gnome 3.6.
>
>It happens in Fedora 18 too.
>
>I did a rebuild from svn and reached  mplayer version  35368-1 from Arch
>Linux AUR https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mplayer-svn/.
>
>Since I moved to mplayer version 35368-1, The screensaver enables for a 5
>-10 seconds and disables.
>
>Is there anything I could do to have a usual function back?
>
>Thanks for reading,
>
>Dr. Piruthiviraj Natarajan
>
>
>Here are the links about the same topic and how I was asked to post here.
>
>http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5708
>
>http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=913573&aid=3582607&group_id=185512
>
>
>
><https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mplayer-svn/>
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