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SMPlayer there is an option to disable the screensaver, but 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.
Downgrading to 0.8.0-1 didn't help either.
couldn't find out what is causing the issue.
any ideas?
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Which screensaver are you using? (Xscreensaver, gnome-screensaver, etc.).
SMPlayer only knows how to disable a certain few.
Last edited by oldtimeyjunk (2012-10-18 12:56:11)
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I have also noticed such a behaviour (KDE, no screen saver here, only the power manager is supposed to dim the display after a certain time of inactivity). It's probably a bug in SMPlayer (MPlayer itself doesn't seem to be affected).
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Xscreensaver works fine as per the workaround given in the wiki.
But gnome-screensaver is the one that's producing issues.
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On my laptop smplayer doesn't disable the screen powersaving since the xorg update. I'm using kde.
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Any idea which package of xorg is offending?
Does downgrading help?
note:
At work now, no access to my ArchBox.
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I noticed this stopped working after a recent update (using mplayer). Havn't looked into it too much, but hacked together a workaround:
#!/bin/bash
# wrapper to prevent screen blanking
usage() {
printf "%s\n" "Usage: ${0##*/} /path/to/file"
exit 1
}
case $# in
1) if [[ "$1" =~ "Videos" ]]; then
xset dpms 0 0 0
xautolock -disable
mplayer "$1"
xautolock -enable
xset dpms 900 900 900
else
usage
fi
;;
*) usage
;;
esac
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Thanks for the workaround script.
But I couldn't make it work on my computer by running like this,
[candice@archboot Desktop]$ smplayer shell.sh
Where shell.sh is the file name which contains your script.
How else should I try?
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Hmm, I was hit by that bug too, but I strongly assumed it was connected to the broken gnome / Xorg update, which killed almost all hotkeys. At least, I noticed this shortly after I noticed the hotkeys bug. It's really annoying that disabling the screensaver is broken again. It was broken for a long time before. I was very relieved after I found out that it finally works, and now .. again .
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Thanks for the workaround script.
But I couldn't make it work on my computer by running like this,[candice@archboot Desktop]$ smplayer shell.sh
Where shell.sh is the file name which contains your script.
How else should I try?
If you rename it vplay, you call it with an argument, eg.,
vplay /path/to/video.mp4
Note that it checks that the video that you want to play is actually somewhere in a path that contains /Videos/ - you can remove that if you like...
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Caffeine in AUR:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29762
Is also a good little system tray program to quickly disable or enable any screensaver..
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I did a rebuild of mplayer-svn-35368-1 from AUR and it seems to work a bit different. Can anyone else confirm this?
Edit:
Since I moved to mplayer version 35368-1, The screensaver enables for a 5 -10 seconds and disables.
Last edited by hadrons123 (2012-11-10 18:43:40)
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