I use MPlayer as my chosen video application and KDE as my desktop environment, one gripe I had was with my screensaver starting up in the middle of a movie but I never really did anything about it.
Today I had my first glimpse at DCOP and was surprised at it simplicity. It took all of 5 minutes to make a wrapper script [1] for mplayer to disable and re-enable the KDE screen saver automatically using DCOP. Feel free to pick apart the script, tell me there was a much easier way of doing this or use it for yourself. Note that I don't use xscreensaver so this is not taken into account. [1] http://nice.net.nz/linux/mplayer-wrapper.txt hads -- A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.
