SMPlayer can't disable the screensaver

hadrons123 · 2012-10-18 11:08:55

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?

oldtimeyjunk · 2012-10-18 12:54:44

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)

bohoomil · 2012-10-18 13:35:51

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).

hadrons123 · 2012-10-18 13:59:34

Xscreensaver works fine as per the workaround given in the wiki.
But gnome-screensaver is the one that's producing issues.

mac1202 · 2012-10-18 22:53:28

On my laptop smplayer doesn't disable the screen powersaving since the xorg update. I'm using kde.

hadrons123 · 2012-10-19 02:11:14

Any idea which package of xorg is offending?

Does downgrading help?

note:
At work now, no access to my ArchBox.

jasonwryan · 2012-10-19 02:17:51

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

hadrons123 · 2012-10-29 17:41:43

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?

dontbugme · 2012-10-29 21:18:05

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 .

jasonwryan · 2012-10-29 21:32:19

hadrons123 wrote:

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...

headkase · 2012-10-29 21:34:27

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..

hadrons123 · 2012-11-08 12:46:58

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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#1 2012-10-18 11:08:55

SMPlayer can't disable the screensaver

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#4 2012-10-18 13:59:34

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#6 2012-10-19 02:11:14

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#7 2012-10-19 02:17:51

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#10 2012-10-29 21:32:19

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