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#1 2012-12-11 18:50:23

kurt
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Registered: 2009-09-06
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mplayer & gnome screenplayer

I'm using mplayer without a GUI on gnome 3.6. When I'm watching a vid the screensaver comes on. Is there a way to stop this happening.

I've tried the ~/.mplayer/config lines as suggested by the wiki:

stop-xscreensaver="yes" # stop gnome-screensaver

But it still comes on.

Any help would be much appreciated

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#2 2012-12-11 19:07:30

bohoomil
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Re: mplayer & gnome screenplayer

You may want to use

hearbeat-cmd="gnome-screensaver"

with a correct parameter if needed. AFAIK, it's all about some limitation in gnome-screesaver's behaviour. See both mplayer's manual and relevant examples over the net.

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#3 2012-12-12 14:44:49

kurt
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Registered: 2009-09-06
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Re: mplayer & gnome screenplayer

bohoomil wrote:

You may want to use

hearbeat-cmd="gnome-screensaver"

with a correct parameter if needed. AFAIK, it's all about some limitation in gnome-screesaver's behaviour. See both mplayer's manual and relevant examples over the net.

I did a quick search before I posted and had tried the following two options. Neither worked

1) heartbeat-cmd="gnome-screensaver-command -p" # This option no longer seems to be available so tried
2) heartbeat-cmd="gnome-screensaver-command -d"

In response to your reply I tried it without the "-command". Still no joy.

VLC works fine but I would like to use mplayer. I will carry on searching but thanks for your help.

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#4 2012-12-12 16:21:49

anonymous_user
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Registered: 2009-08-28
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Re: mplayer & gnome screenplayer

If you don't mind installing a program, you could use caffeine-bzr from the AUR to disable the screensaver.

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