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On Monday 18 July 2005 6:59 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Scott,
On Sunday 17 July 2005 22:34, Scott Leighton wrote:
Mplayer has an irritating habit of somehow disabling the monitor's powersave, so my monitor stays on all the time after an mplayer session. So far, the only solution I've found is to ctrl-alt-backspace to restart X, which seems pretty extreme to me.
Does anyone know of any way to either prevent mplayer from screwing up the powersave settings, or to reinstate those settings in a manner less extreme than restarting X?
Standard Advisory: Explore the options of all software you use!
MPlayer -> Preferences (wrench icon of floating player control window or context menu on control or video windows) --> Misc ---> Stop XScreenSaver
It's off by default on mine.
Randall, Thanks, but I don't believe my problem is xscreensaver. I'm pretty sure it's powersaved and I think Paul nailed it on the head in his reply. I'm going to see if his xset +dpms idea works. Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-21.7-default x86_64 SuSE Linux 9.3 (x86-64)