[MPlayer-users] mplayer prevents (wakes up?) DPMS timeouts; how to prevent?

Ted Pavlic ted at tedpavlic.com
Wed Sep 7 17:40:19 CEST 2011


> If I'm playing a video with mplayer (or ffplay), how can I tell
> mplayer to *not* disable DPMS so that my screen will be blanked/etc.
> on schedule?

FYI, as of an SVN commit yesterday, the "-nostop-xscreensaver" option
works again, and so:

mplayer -nostop-xscreensaver

(or setting "stop-xscreensaver = no" in ~/.mplayer/config) will prevent
mplayer from disabling DPMS timeouts in X11.

--Ted

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Ted Pavlic <ted at tedpavlic.com>


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