[Mplayer-users] Screen saver

Arpi arpi at thot.banki.hu
Fri Jul 20 12:04:02 CEST 2001


Hi,

> > > perhaps he is using xscreensaver, which cannot be disabled with xset s off.
> > hmm. how can it be disabled?
> 
> i could not find any way to disable it, except killing it. according to the
> man, killing xscreensaver should be done with 'xscreensaver-command -exit',
> but there is no way to disable it. what i have found is that 'killall -STOP
> xscreensaver' is enough to disable it, and 'killall -CONT xscreensaver' to
> revive it.

It's ugly & messy :)

but if you need it, simply add these to end of saver_on() and saver_off()
at libvo/x11_common.c:

system("killall -STOP xscreensaver");
and
system("killall -CONT xscreensaver");

btw this requires root...


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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