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daniel227

Member

Registered: 2012-03-14

Posts: 34

[Solved] disable screensaver does not work when watching movies.

hello!

there's the problem.

it seems to be mostly with mplayer.

vlc and xine seem to be able to disable the screensaver, but i have other issues with those so i have to use mplayer (smplayer, gnome-mplayer, gnome-media-player and plain mplayer)

i found several discussions, but nothing works here.
that is:
- installing caffeine
- checking the appropriate bits in the media players' preferences
- adding a -heartbeat-cmd="xscreensaver-command -deactivate" to /etc/mplayer.conf
- adding a line to disable xscreensaver to mplayer.conf

most discussions are about gnome-screensaver - ...

any help?

gekk0

Member

From: Rome, Italy

Registered: 2012-03-21

Posts: 6

Re: [Solved] disable screensaver does not work when watching movies.

the right command should be

heartbeat-cmd="xscreensaver-command -deactivate"

but try to create config file in your ~/.mplayer/config and put this line them

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daniel227

Member

Registered: 2012-03-14

Posts: 34

Re: [Solved] disable screensaver does not work when watching movies.

i don't know how i missed it, but caffeine solves the problem.