[MPlayer-users] mplayer and screen savers

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

>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)

On 06.09.13 13:21, Erik Auerswald wrote:
>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.]

I'm fine with the fact it works with X and DPMS blanking.

The main point here is that it does not stop xscreensaver from blanking...
I just remember it worked with xscreensaver before...
some manuals recommend to define heartbeat-command but I feel that ugly...

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