[MPlayer-dev-eng] Fwd: Re: accessibility misfeatures

[Amaury Jacquot]

Jindrich Makovicka wrote:
> Alexander Strasser wrote:
> 
>> I think you are right!
>> This code sends an event of type SCREENSAVER with the content DEACTIVATE.
>> This should be equal to fire up a xscreensaver-command -deactivate. And
>> this pretends a user interaction meaning
>> - if the screen was blanked => unblank it
>> - if the screen wasn't blanked => reset the timeout.
>>
>> So either these accusations are wrong or there is more xscreensaver code
>> in mplayer we don't know of. But i really don't think so.
> 
> 
> Actually, there is (or was, i didn't check if it's fixed) a different 
> XScreensaver vs. MPlayer issue. XScreensaver periodically re-enables 
> DPMS, regardless of screensaver pings, which means the screen turns off 
> in the middle of a movie anyway.
> 

mebbe we need a standard way to communicate to Xscreensaver that 
screensaver should be off ?