disable screensaver

wHAcKer · Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2002 6:25 pm Post subject: disable screensaver

I recently installed xscreensaver and I like to have it at 3 minutes black out. However, when I'm watching a movie or some episode there must be a way to quickly disable it. I checked the man from xscreensaver but it doesn't say anything about it being disabled when a certain program runs. I could write a script to disable it but then I always have to run that script when i start mplayer.
do you guys have any idea how to disable xscreensaver temporarily?

ch0c0b0 · n00b Joined: 24 Apr 2002 Posts: 55 Location: New York, NY

Don't know which desktop manager your running, but in Gnome this can be configured in the Desktop Preferences menu (forgot which tab cuz I'm not on my box right now).

wHAcKer · Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2002 8:39 pm Post subject:

oh yeah, i'm sorry i didn't say that, it's fluxbox

vers_iq · Apprentice Joined: 18 May 2002 Posts: 264

i thought mplayer will handle this automagically (disable any monitor management temporarily). If i was wrong you can

wHAcKer · Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2002 10:58 pm Post subject:

correct me if I'm wrong but that would disable the blank screen you get when you are in CLI too?
The aim is to temporarily disable xscreensaver but only when mplayer is active.
I guess it's kinda hard to do

masseya · Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2002 1:56 am Post subject:

The best thing that I can think of would be to use this

wHAcKer · Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2002 11:09 pm Post subject:

oh, yeah right, i finally c real use for a wrapper script

THANKS MATE, I'm gonna sort that out