On Fri, 4 May 2007 15:29:42 -0700 Jamie Zawinski wrote:

> The way mplayer disables xscreensaver is idiotic, so it would not be  
> at all surprising that mplayer would also screw up your dpms settings.
> 
> The only sensible way for a video player to interact with
> xscreensaver: http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#dvd
> 
> The mplayer developers are aware of this, and don't care.

Maybe Debian mplayer package maintainers could be persuaded to create a
Debian patch that fixes this issue for Debian...

Would it be possible?


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