Bug 171303

Summary:	mplayer can't stop gnome-screensaver from kicking in
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Alexandre Oliva <oliva>
Component:	gnome-screensaver	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
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Description Alexandre Oliva 2005-10-20 15:59:47 UTC

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Description of problem:
mplayer (and probably several other media players) has a feature that enables it to disable the screensaver while it's running.  This is quite convenient to watch movies on the computer.

Ever since I switched to gnome-screensaver, this has no longer worked.  mplayer -stop-xscreensaver ... says it can't disable the screen saver.  Presumably it uses xscreensaver-command to tell the screen saver to stop and later restart, but since gnome-screensaver is a different screen saver, that doesn't quite work.  It would be nice of gnome-screensaver could accept commands from xscreensaver-command, and/or xscreensaver-command was extended to support xscreensaver.  Otherwise, it will require every application to support both.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-screensaver-0.0.16-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run mplayer -stop-xscreensaver, or any scrip that used xscreensaver-command to keep the screensaver from kicking in during a movie, a presentation, whatever

Actual Results:  xscreensaver-command fails because it can't command gnome-screensaver

Expected Results:  It would be nice if it did

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Comment 1 Marius Andreiana 2005-11-02 12:09:07 UTC

Perhaps gnome-screensaver package should conflict with xscreensaver package, and
provide a symlink and similar functionality to xscreensaver-command

Comment 2 Alexandre Oliva 2005-11-03 16:20:24 UTC

Core packages must not conflict with other core packages.  We need some
alternatives-based solution, or get xscreensaver-command clever enough to
command gnome-screensaver too.

Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2006-08-04 05:54:50 UTC

gnome-screensaver has a well-defined and documented interface for inhibiting it.
mplayer just needs to use it.