Bug#495510: stop-xscreensaver in mplayer no longer works with xscreensaver

2008-08-27 Thread Jakob
I am not sure if this is a change in mplayer or xscreensaver. However, recently mplayer fails to stop xscreensaver from blanking the screen. According to mplayer documentation a standard X interface for stopping the screensaver exists and xscreensaver does not use it. I remember looking

Bug#495510: stop-xscreensaver in mplayer no longer works with xscreensaver

2008-08-18 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: xscreensaver Version: 5.05-3 Severity: normal I am not sure if this is a change in mplayer or xscreensaver. However, recently mplayer fails to stop xscreensaver from blanking the screen. According to mplayer documentation a standard X interface for stopping the screensaver exists and

Bug#495510: stop-xscreensaver in mplayer no longer works with xscreensaver

2008-08-18 Thread Jamie Zawinski
I am not sure if this is a change in mplayer or xscreensaver. However, recently mplayer fails to stop xscreensaver from blanking the screen. According to mplayer documentation a standard X interface for stopping the screensaver exists and xscreensaver does not use it. It would be nice if this

Bug#495510: stop-xscreensaver in mplayer no longer works with xscreensaver

2008-08-18 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 18/08/2008, Jamie Zawinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure if this is a change in mplayer or xscreensaver. However, recently mplayer fails to stop xscreensaver from blanking the screen. According to mplayer documentation a standard X interface for stopping the screensaver

Bug#495510: stop-xscreensaver in mplayer no longer works with xscreensaver

2008-08-18 Thread Jamie Zawinski
There used to be at least xlock xlock was not a screen saver. You had to turn it on and off manually. Until the late 1990s, when xlockmore was released, xlock was not a screen saver by any definition. the fact that xscreensaver is the most widely used screensaver software does not make

Bug#495510: stop-xscreensaver in mplayer no longer works with xscreensaver

2008-08-18 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 18/08/2008, Jamie Zawinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There used to be at least xlock xlock was not a screen saver. You had to turn it on and off manually. Until the late 1990s, when xlockmore was released, xlock was not a screen saver by any definition. the fact that xscreensaver