[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Add support for GNOME screensaver

[Piotr Kaczuba]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 05:04:37PM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 15:50 +0200, Piotr Kaczuba wrote:
> > I've wrote a patch to support GNOME screensaver in MPlayer, i.e. to
> > disable it when playing a movie and reenabling it after that.
> 
> Does this have any advantages over disabling the screensaver with common
> X calls? Does the GNOME screensaver not respect those?
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GNOME screensaver provides an API of its own for controlling it via DBUS
messages. I don't know, it can be done with common X calls, but IMHO
sending a message to the screensaver via DBUS is very clear and simple.