Bug#498895: mplayer: Does not inhibit gnome screensaver

[A Mennucc]

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tag 498895 +unreproducible
thanks

Sam Morris ha scritto:
> Mplayer does not prevent the GNOME screen saver from activating while a
> movie is playing. Consequently, mplayer is not very useful for watching
> movies longer than a few minutes.

hi,

I did some tests today, in a uptodate Debian/sid install , and it works,
 exactly as it did work (for me) in March 2007, when I added the patch.

My tests.

# mplayer -stop-xscreensaver  myvideo.avi
does inhibit the gnome screensaver *as long as* the cursor is inside the
MPlayer window. It also works fine in fullscreen mode

If I omit -stop-xscreensaver , then the screensaver starts in due time.

If you add '-msglevel vo=9'  it will print
"Warping cursor to disable gnome-screensaver."
whenever XWarpPointer is called. But remember that the call is
ineffective when the cursor is outside the MPlayer window ...
of course, it would be a VERY bad idea to move around
the cursor when it is in another window
(e.g. the user may end up clicking the wrong button).

a.
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