[MPlayer-users] (no subject)

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 10:57:13AM +0100, Torinthiel wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 01:50:47PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> > 
> >       Just out of curiousity, I was wondering if there
> > was any sort of command line way to check and see if
> > mplayer-either in GUI mode or not-via the command line
> > was being used in fullscreen mode or not because the
> > problem is that I have a wallpaper switching script
> > setup with XFCE and having mplayer play a video and my
> > desktop change every 5 minutes causes a good deal of
> > lag for a while in mplayer :(.
> 
> You want to check if there is a MPlayer running? ps x|grep mplayer
> (it will detect both command line and gui)
> You want to check if there is a MPlayer running fs? I have no idea.
> Torinthiel

you should also run your wallpaper loader with nice.
e.g. nice -n 19 xsetbg $foo

rich