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

[Dan]

Jim Cornette wrote:
> Tom Killian wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>
> I watched a movie using xine and xscreensaver-base where the 
> screensaver never kicked in except when I paused the DVD for a bit to 
> do something.
>
> gnome-screensaver is said to take advantage of the message bus. I 
> don't see why the screensaver cannot read video memory, differentiate 
> between  the video content a minute or two earlier, if checksum is the 
> same, engage, otherwise do nothing at all.
>
> Jim
>
I believe totem or something similar has an option to keep the 
screensaver at bay while video is playing.
-Dan