[MPlayer-dev-eng] Question for dev's: Does mplayer disable DPMS timeouts? "xset q" looks good, but timeouts never trigger

Ted Pavlic ted at tedpavlic.com
Wed Sep 7 17:47:47 CEST 2011


>> I tend to agree: -stop-screensaver should be the default.
>>
>> Changing:
>>
>> int stop_xscreensaver = 0;
>>
>> to ... = 1 in libvo/x11_common.c should be enough.
> 
> I have no objections, I just didn't get around to it.

FYI, so long as

-nostop-xscreensaver

works as documented, I think this is a good fix. Existing screensavers
that use mplayer (including electricsheep) have been using the
nostop-xscreensaver option. It's just nice that it works again.

Thanks.
--Ted

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Ted Pavlic <ted at tedpavlic.com>


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