[MPlayer-users] mplayer and screen savers

[Erik Auerswald]

Hi,

On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 12:36:40PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> how does current mplayer interact with screen savers
> - built into X (blanking and DPMS, configured with xset)

For many years I was using just that (no desktop environment, no
xscreensaver program) on Debian/Sid, and MPlayer did work perfectly in
inhibiting blanking or DPMS while playing a movie.

[Past tense because that machine broke about a month ago.]

Erik