Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 171303
mplayer can't stop gnome-screensaver from kicking in
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:15 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051008 Fedora/1.5-0.5.0.beta2 Firefox/1.4.1 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 Additional info:
Perhaps gnome-screensaver package should conflict with xscreensaver package, and provide a symlink and similar functionality to xscreensaver-command
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.
gnome-screensaver has a well-defined and documented interface for inhibiting it. mplayer just needs to use it.