okay, I've now done some tests and can perhaps explain your observations. The binary installed in the mplayer package is actually 'gmplayer', sometimes called 'mplayer-gui'. It is actually widely unmaintained and known to be buggy.
As for our screensaver patch. It seems to work only in these conditions: - in mplayer windowed mode iff the pointer is inside the window - in mplayer gui mode It does *not* seem to work in the following conditions: - in mplayer winowed mode if the pointer is outside the window - in gmplayer in fullscreen - in gmplayer in windowed mode -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 -- mplayer does not disable gnome-screensaver during playback in some conditions https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/505149 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
