Briefly I am wondering how I can set up the (gnome) screensaver to NOT come on when I am running a video app.
Up until a few months ago I had my debian machine set up so that the screen would go blank after 5 minutes and then shut off the monitor after 10 minutes. But the screen would remain on whenever I played a video in totem, VLC, mplayer, etc. Then (a few months back) after an apt-get dist-upgrade it stopped behaving this way. At the time I thought that it was just one of those apt-get hiccups where some behaviour changes until something else gets upgraded. Now I figure that some config file was over-written such that media apps no longer take precidence over the screen saver app. Can anyone tell me how I can get that behaviour back? Thanks in advance, Craig