[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Inhibit xscreensaver from activating

[Sebastian Kapfer]

On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 23:55:55 +0100
Arpi <arpi at thot.banki.hu> wrote:

> yep this is the nonsense 'ping' method invented by the xscreensaver
> author. we've decided to refuse to support his broken brain bug.

It may not be ideal (why is there no lockfile or similar?!), but it
works.

> anyway i disagree it's 55msec,

Please re-read my message.

> it's longer unless you have an ideal
> system. and anyway 55msec is loger than a frame time (33/40ms) so it
> will stop video a bit every minute.

Actually, it's closer to 10 msec than 20, at least on my system. Given
about 25% CPU load when playing a movie, this _is_ feasable. Nobody
forces AMD-K6-something owners to run xss...

> if you have to solve the fd problem, just killall -STOP xscreensaver.

This is yet another hack. The correct solution would be to fix xss and
stop this silly pingpong game, but I guess the xss author is unlikely to
change his opinion. If you don't like the patch, then don't apply it to
the official version. I'm not going to start a religious war - good to
know that mplayer is free software :)

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