Oh....rats.... screensaver activates itself

[Tom Killian]

>gnome-screensaver should be located under the System > Preferences >
>Screensaver menu selection. I believe you can select to disable the
>screensaver, stop it from locking the desktop and the like from there.

Does anyone know a way of doing this through a script?  It would be
nice if mplayer, for example, could disable and then restore the
screen saver.