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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? 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)
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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.
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On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 06:59:21 -0700
Randall R Schulz
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.
I am no expert on this subject but application preferences and xscreensaver settings generally have no effect on this problem here. I have this preference set and in fact I have xscreensaver turned off here altogether. I see no point having a screensaver running when using dpms power saving on the monitor; and from a power usage perspective, a blank screen from a screensaver app is not the same thing as dpms standby mode. What does work is using 'xset' from a terminal window. I use 'xset dpms <parameters>' to set the powersave options. Then all I have to do after using mplayer is remember to put (as user) a command at a terminal line of 'xset +dpms'. ie turn dpms back on. Read man xset. I boot this machine to runlevel 3 and use startx to load gui so I have not quite worked out which config should hold these xset settings permanently because if I forget manual command, dpms is disabled. I can understand why the developers of mplayer do turn it off, but you would think they could have the damn decency to turn it back on when you leave their app?! Hope this helps. Paul. -- Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home. Linux Registered User #313850
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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)
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