does -stop-xscreensavers work for you?
from man mplayer:
'stop-xscreensaver (X11 only)
Turns off xscreensaver at startup and turns it on again on
exit.'
presumably you can make this semi-permanent in your ~/.mplayer/config file
On Sat, January 1, 2005 4:30 am, Hadley Rich said:
> On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 21:17, chris bayley wrote:
>> If you use KDE screensavers tick the box marked 'make aware of
>> power managment'. When xine (I sure other player as well) plays a
>> movie it disables DPMS and now it disables your sceensaver well !!
>
> I originally tried that and it didn't seem to do the trick with
> MPlayer for me at least (KDE 3.3.2).
>
> hads
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