[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Activating/Deactivating of XScreenSaver

[Diego Biurrun]

Arpi writes:
 > 
 > > Since xscreensaver is used for locking the screen, a crashing mplayer
 > why? if it crashes, it calls vo's uninit (and all uninit stuff) before
 > exiting
 > 
 > > can be a security hole, because the screen will not be locked again
 > > and the user is probably not aware of this.
 > imho if an user executes killall -9 mplayer, he will notice it...
 > 
 > > This is my pet peeve, too, and a very nice feature, I believe.  Movie
 > > players should disable screensavers.
 > 
 > and screensavers should provide an acceptable interface for disabling
 > screensaver.
 > 
 > running shell command every 10 sec by the movie player to keep the
 > screensaver disabled is not acceptable, at least by me.

Does this patch look acceptable then?

Diego