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Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,487

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mplayer and gnome-screensaver

How do I disable gnome-screensaver while mplayer is running?  I did a google search and found  http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5371 which says it should be happening already...

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kakTuZ

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From: Hannover, Germany

Registered: 2007-10-20

Posts: 86

Re: mplayer and gnome-screensaver

Yeah, that annoys me, too. I just looked arround  after reading you post and found in ~/.mplayer/gui.conf to set

stopxscreensaver = "yes"

seems fixed it half. The screensaver doesn't start, but before not starting he fades out anyway
But i don't want to disable the fadeout, because i find it useful on other occasions.

Edit: some collateral Damage -- the screensaver doesn't start anymore although mplayer isn't running anymore (but it still fades out ). Perhaps X restart fixes this, will try later.

Last edited by kakTuZ (2007-11-14 21:01:16)