Bug#396820: xscreensaver: DPMS settings have no effect

2007-06-03 Thread Jamie Zawinski
All SDL does is use standard X calls to disable blanking and DPMS while it's running then reenable them when it exits. Yeah, well, the standard X calls are insufficient for xscreensaver to work properly. You can support it explicitly, or you can continue to have things not work right.

Bug#396820: xscreensaver: DPMS settings have no effect

2007-06-03 Thread Tony Houghton
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote: All SDL does is use standard X calls to disable blanking and DPMS while it's running then reenable them when it exits. Yeah, well, the standard X calls are insufficient for xscreensaver to work properly. You can support it explicitly, or you can

Bug#396820: xscreensaver: DPMS settings have no effect

2007-06-02 Thread Tony Houghton
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Francesco Poli wrote: 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

Bug#396820: xscreensaver: DPMS settings have no effect

2007-05-29 Thread Francesco Poli
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:

Bug#396820: xscreensaver: DPMS settings have no effect

2007-05-04 Thread Tony Houghton
I think I've got the same problem. The DPMS settings do sometimes work, but not always. I think the times it doesn't work may be after using a video player such as mplayer and/or a game using SDL. I think such programs usually disable the screensaver while in full-screen mode. However,

Bug#396820: xscreensaver: DPMS settings have no effect

2007-05-04 Thread Jamie Zawinski
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