Re: Preventing screensaver when playing movie?

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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
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