Preventing screensaver when playing movie?

[Erik]

Lubos Lunak skrev:
> On ne 2. března 2008, Erik wrote:
>   
>> We actually found a way: XResetScreenSaver
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> That's what I meant by the internal X screensaver. But I don't know if this will also prevent DPMS from suspending the monitor
Works on my laptop, where DPMS is the only kind of screensaver I use and 
need.


> and it's a question if xscreensaver, gnome-screensaver or any other possible screensaver react on it, so I suggest you check this.
>   
If those target the X11 platform, they must work with XResetScreenSaver 
(report it as a bug otherwise). Everything else would just be insane. It 
is not realistic that every media player has to be compatible with every 
screensaver. That would cause a combinatorial explosion of depencencies. 
The only sane thing to do is that each media player just calls 
XResetScreenSaver and every screensaver works with that.