There used to be at least xlock
xlock was not a screen saver. You had to turn it on and off manually. Until the late 1990s, when "xlockmore" was released, xlock was not a screen saver by any definition.
the fact that xscreensaver is the most widely used screensaver software does not make system("xscreensaver -deactivate &") the standard solution for disabling screensaver.
It does mean exactly that, actually. Unless you have some weird and non-useful, non-helpful definition of "standard".
They copied that bogus faq entry into their docs as well for people running xscreensaver. Running "xscreensaver -deactivate" stops the player for tens of seconds because of bug in xscreensaver.
What "bug in xscreensaver" is this? I have never heard of such a thing.
The command has to be written with & so that it is executed in the background.
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