Re: X turn off monitors automatically, not with mplayer running

2017-10-07 Thread x9p
>> > >> >> Have you tried switching to mpv ? >> > > While it seems MPlayer wasn't at fault, I'm with Mark - upgrade to mpv. > trying it out. seems nice, and till now did not gave errors like "vprintf %s NULL in..." in /var/log/messages like mplayer do from time to time, which is nice. cheers.

Re: X turn off monitors automatically, not with mplayer running

2017-10-07 Thread jungle Boogie
On Oct 7, 2017 4:48 AM, "Marc Espie" wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 06:52:53AM -0300, x9p wrote: > > Hi > > > > If am running a video with mplayer, pause it, and lock X with xlock - my > > monitors are not turned off for inactivity. > > > > If mplayer is not running, after a

Re: X turn off monitors automatically, not with mplayer running

2017-10-07 Thread x9p
> > Have you tried switching to mpv ? > Problem was not mplayer, but DPMS settings. Mark Carroll gave the correct arguments, but thanks. mplayer never failed me, but mpv project looks nice, apart from the GUI addition. > I've given up trying to make modern things work with mplayer, the mpv >

Re: X turn off monitors automatically, not with mplayer running

2017-10-07 Thread x9p
Thank you ! It worked for me ! cheers. x9p > On 07 Oct 2017, x9p wrote: > >> I am trying to disable the energy saving without mplayer, so I run the >> command: >> >> $ xset -dpms >> >> But it did not worked for me. Any hints on the proper way? > > I have an .xinitrc on one OpenBSD machine that

Re: X turn off monitors automatically, not with mplayer running

2017-10-07 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 06:52:53AM -0300, x9p wrote: > Hi > > If am running a video with mplayer, pause it, and lock X with xlock - my > monitors are not turned off for inactivity. > > If mplayer is not running, after a couple of minutes my monitors are > automatically turned off. > > I am

Re: X turn off monitors automatically, not with mplayer running

2017-10-07 Thread Mark Carroll
On 07 Oct 2017, x9p wrote: > I am trying to disable the energy saving without mplayer, so I run the > command: > > $ xset -dpms > > But it did not worked for me. Any hints on the proper way? I have an .xinitrc on one OpenBSD machine that has, xset dpms 0 0 0 xset s off The

X turn off monitors automatically, not with mplayer running

2017-10-07 Thread x9p
Hi If am running a video with mplayer, pause it, and lock X with xlock - my monitors are not turned off for inactivity. If mplayer is not running, after a couple of minutes my monitors are automatically turned off. I am trying to disable the energy saving without mplayer, so I run the command: