On 26/02/2008, Kevin DeKorte <kdekorte@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:> On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 19:02 +0100, Erik wrote:> > Suppose that we have the following situation. A user has told the system> > to "turn off the display after N minutes of inactivity". Then he starts> > the media player, opens a file and presses a button called play. The> > media player interprets this as the user saying "play this movie, but do> > not turn off the display while playing it, because i will watch it even> > though I do not interact with the system".> >> > So the media player has to do something like this. Each time the> > application updates the display with a new animation frame, it marks> > that update with a special flag, indicating that this is the kind of> > thing that the user may be watching even though he has not interacted> > with the system> > for a while. System then resets the screensaver countdown. However it> > does not reset the session locking countdown, because only real input> > may do that, for security reasons. So the user may have to give his> > password when he wants to interact with the system after playing the movie.> >> > How can the media player achieve this with xorg?>>> With gnome-mplayer, I use a dbus message to tell gnome-screensaver to be> inhibited while a video is being played.>> CVS can be viewed here>> http://dekorte.homeip.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gnome-mplayer/src/dbus-interface.c?rev=1.73>> It is the last function on that page.>> Kevin Any solution for KDE users who prefer mplayer? This may be relevant:http://xkcd.com/196/ Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.comhttp://gibberish.co.ilא-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת; A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?_______________________________________________xorg mailing listxorg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg