mplayer, dpms problem

[oleksandr korneta]

on 11/09/2006 06:25 PM Antonio Olivares wrote:
> $ mplayer dvd:// -alang en -stop-xscreensaver 
> worked till the movie finished.  
> In Fedora Core 5 and the new inclusion of
> gnome-screensaver, this also worked.  However, with
> Core 6, mplayer plays the movie but dpms kicks in and
> blanks the screen.  How can I tell dpms not to kick in
> and allow mplayer to play the complete movie without
> blanking the screen?

I've found the shell script (don't remember the source already), 
modified it a bit and it kinda works for me.

#!/bin/bash
(exec "$@")&
PID=$(jobs -p)
( while [ -d /proc/$PID ] &>/dev/null ; do
     sleep 500s
     gnome-screensaver-command --poke &>/dev/null
done
)&
wait $PID

I have it under ~/bin/noss name
in order to run mplayer you do

$ noss mplayer


You can put an alias into ~/.bashrc (or whatever you got there)

-- 
regards,
Oleksandr Korneta

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