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th0th

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From: Turkey

Registered: 2011-03-19

Posts: 22

[SOLVED] Smplayer doesn't stop xscreensaver (openbox)

Hello,
I am using openbox as standalone wm and smplayer for playing videos -and xscreensaver for, you know, screensaver-. My problem is, when I am playing a video with smplayer, it doesn't stop xscreensaver and screen gets locked. I did a research on this, I've read lots of threads but none of the solutions suggested solved my problem.

In one of the old threads I found someone saying adding

heartbeat-cmd="qdbus org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver /ScreenSaver org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver.SimulateUserActivity"

to mplayer config has solved their problem but it looks like this command is deprecated.

$ qdbus org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver /ScreenSaver org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver.SimulateUserActivity
Service 'org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver' does not exist.

Last edited by th0th (2011-03-28 08:39:18)

Xabre

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2009-03-19

Posts: 750

Re: [SOLVED] Smplayer doesn't stop xscreensaver (openbox)

Well, you're not using KDE session, aren't you? Therefor, qdbus is not started.

Use instaead something like:

heartbeat-cmd="/usr/bin/xscreensaver-command -deactivate > /dev/null"

Last edited by Xabre (2011-03-28 08:32:40)

vacant

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From: downstairs

Registered: 2004-11-05

Posts: 816

Re: [SOLVED] Smplayer doesn't stop xscreensaver (openbox)

does this work?

xset s off

th0th

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From: Turkey

Registered: 2011-03-19

Posts: 22

Re: [SOLVED] Smplayer doesn't stop xscreensaver (openbox)

Well, you're not using KDE session, aren't you? Therefor, qdbus is not started.

Use instaead something like:

heartbeat-cmd="/usr/bin/xscreensaver-command -deactivate > /dev/null"

Silly me, it's already mentioned on wiki, which is first place to look actually

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xs … plications

Looks like adding

heartbeat-cmd="xscreensaver-command -deactivate >&- 2>&- &"

to mplayer config solved the issue.

BTW, thank you for quick replies