[MPlayer-users] Screen saver disable.
Götz Waschk
waschk at informatik.uni-rostock.de
Thu Oct 16 14:52:41 CEST 2003
Am Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2003, 15:12:58 Uhr MET, schrieb Konstantinos Karydas:
> I know about stop_xscreensaver! I know how to read the docs. But I want to
> totally disable screen saver in Re Hat 7.3, not just during mplayer
> playback. The reason is that I am running mplayer in the background while
> having another terminal open and active performing some other actions
> (project requirement). So the screen saver is activated I guess because the
> active window does not run mplayer thus not disabling the X screen
> saver.
The stop_xscreensaver should always work while running mplayer,
there's no difference between running it in the background or on top
of the window stack.
> I know that probably this shouldn't happen normally but that's how
> it is unfortunately. So I thought that the solution would be to
> totally disable the X screen saver. Understand now? So any
> suggestions?
Start xscreensaver-demo or gnomecc (don't remember) and click the
disable screensaver option.
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