Re: How to stop screensaver starting when video apps run?

2006-04-02 Thread Ernest jw ter Kuile
On Sunday 02 April 2006 12:22, Craig Hagerman wrote: > Briefly I am wondering how I can set up the (gnome) screensaver to NOT > come on when I am running a video app. It should be up to the video application to stop the screen saver. Mplayer does this at startup with message "Disabling DPMS", and

How to stop screensaver starting when video apps run?

2006-04-02 Thread Craig Hagerman
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 wh