[MPlayer-users] mplayer prevents (wakes up?) DPMS timeouts; how to prevent?

[Ted Pavlic]

I've noticed that my DPMS timeouts are never triggered while
electricsheep runs despite "xset q" showing that DPMS is enabled.
Drilling down further, I see that running mplayer actually causes the
problem (moreover, ffplay causes the same problem).

If I'm playing a video with mplayer (or ffplay), how can I tell
mplayer to *not* disable DPMS so that my screen will be blanked/etc.
on schedule?

At the moment, the only way I can get electricsheep to blank the
screen is if I launch a process in parallel that does timed launches
of "xset dpms force off" commands while electricsheep is running.

Thanks --
Ted

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[Ted Pavlic]

> If I'm playing a video with mplayer (or ffplay), how can I tell
> mplayer to *not* disable DPMS so that my screen will be blanked/etc.
> on schedule?

FYI, as of an SVN commit yesterday, the "-nostop-xscreensaver" option
works again, and so:

mplayer -nostop-xscreensaver

(or setting "stop-xscreensaver = no" in ~/.mplayer/config) will prevent
mplayer from disabling DPMS timeouts in X11.

--Ted

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

>> If I'm playing a video with mplayer (or ffplay), how can I tell
>> mplayer to *not* disable DPMS so that my screen will be blanked/etc.
>> on schedule?

On 07.09.11 11:40, Ted Pavlic wrote:
>FYI, as of an SVN commit yesterday, the "-nostop-xscreensaver" option
>works again, and so:
>
>mplayer -nostop-xscreensaver
>
>(or setting "stop-xscreensaver = no" in ~/.mplayer/config) will prevent
>mplayer from disabling DPMS timeouts in X11.

Does it apply for Xserver blanking/DPMS timeouts? afaik the
"stop-xscreensaver" only affects xscreensaver process, not Xserver's
blanking (including DPMS).
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[Nicolas George]

Le decadi 30 fructidor, an CCXIX, Matus UHLAR - fantomas a écrit :

> Does it apply for Xserver blanking/DPMS timeouts? afaik the
> "stop-xscreensaver" only affects xscreensaver process, not Xserver's
> blanking (including DPMS).

It applies to anything that uses the XScreenSaver the way it is supposed to
be used. This includes internal screen saver and DPMS without a doubt. I do
not know what external screen savers use the extension correctly though.

Regards,

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[Reimar Döffinger]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:03:32AM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> >>If I'm playing a video with mplayer (or ffplay), how can I tell
> >>mplayer to *not* disable DPMS so that my screen will be blanked/etc.
> >>on schedule?
>
> On 07.09.11 11:40, Ted Pavlic wrote:
> >FYI, as of an SVN commit yesterday, the "-nostop-xscreensaver" option
> >works again, and so:
> >
> >mplayer -nostop-xscreensaver
> >
> >(or setting "stop-xscreensaver = no" in ~/.mplayer/config) will prevent
> >mplayer from disabling DPMS timeouts in X11.
>
> Does it apply for Xserver blanking/DPMS timeouts? afaik the
> "stop-xscreensaver" only affects xscreensaver process, not Xserver's
> blanking (including DPMS).

That was how it behaved (though not even that properly), but that did
not match the documentation at all.
So it is now changed to apply to all these, also since there is no
sensible way anymore to affect only one specifically.