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catkfr
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 Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 7:11 pm Post subject: [Tip] disabling gnome-screensaver when using mplayer |
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Edit: Changes were made in mplayer and a new way of doing this can be found 2 posts down.
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I've watched movies using players based on mplayer and have gnome-screensaver launch. Doing some searching, bugs have been filed both to the mplayer guys and the gnome-screensaver guys and both are saying the other should fix it. Gentoo devs point upstream as well.
My workaround is a script that I launch through gnome-session and it does the job just fine!
| Code: | #!/bin/sh
PIDGS=`pgrep gnome-session`
while [ $PIDGS -eq `pgrep gnome-session` ]
do
if pgrep mplayer &>/dev/null; then
gnome-screensaver-command -p
fi
# Modify sleep time (in seconds) as needed below
sleep 60
done
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Of course, this works for mplayer (and mplayer based players who launch an mplayer process), but it can be adapted to other programs as well...
I have no bash scripting experience, so feel free to tell me if there are better ways to write this.
Hope this will help some.
Catkfr
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ceric35
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Also work for me  |
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catkfr
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Apparently, starting with version mplayer-1.0_rc2_p25993 (source: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/327503?page=last), there was a change in mplayer to stick to screensaver X11 standards. This doesn't change anything for gnome-screensaver for the moment as they do not support but they have added a new functionality which makes this script less interesting.
So, the current best workaround is editing your ~/.mplayer/config file to contain the heartbeat command. I've added the xscreensaver command that was in the url given above but haven't tested it myself.
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# Write your default config options here!
#stop-xscreensaver=1 # no longer works
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# for gnome-screensaver:
heartbeat-cmd="/usr/bin/gnome-screensaver-command -p > /dev/null"
#
# for xscreensaver:
#heartbeat-cmd="/usr/bin/xscreensaver-command -deactivate > /dev/null"
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This should work with all mplayer based applications and allows the screensaver to run when in pause.
Tested with mplayer version 1.0_rc2_p26300-r1 in gnome-2.22 |
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dragon6621
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| Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 8:18 am Post subject: Re: Disable gnome-screensaver while mplayer is playing a vid |
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I think this should work:
| Code: | | mplayer −heartbeat−cmd "gnome−screensaver−command −p" your_video.avi |
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desultory
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| Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 9:34 am Post subject: |
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| Merged the above post from another topic. |
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