Inhibit gnome-screensaver

I want to inhibit gnome-screensaver from starting while I run mplayer. There is a command "gnome-screensaver-command --inhibit" which should work but even with that running I still have gnome-screensaver starting. I also can't get any dbus based commands/scripts to stop it.
I am running XFCE. Does that command work other XFCE users? How about GNOME users?

Allan wrote:
I want to inhibit gnome-screensaver from starting while I run mplayer. There is a command "gnome-screensaver-command --inhibit" which should work but even with that running I still have gnome-screensaver starting. I also can't get any dbus based commands/scripts to stop it.
I am running XFCE. Does that command work other XFCE users? How about GNOME users?
Though I use xscreensaver, I just installed gnome-screensaver to see what was up. I tested your python DBUS script, and it seems to work fine here. The inhibit cookie is being created (I threw in a print statement just to see the value), and it is being observed until the selected video finishes. As soon as the video finishes, mplayer exits and the screensaver kicks in as expected.
I'm not sure why you are getting different results, but you can run this from the command line or in a script as it might be helpful for testing:
dbus-send --session --dest=org.gnome.ScreenSaver --type=method_call --print-reply --reply-timeout=20000 /org/gnome/ScreenSaver org.gnome.ScreenSaver.Inhibit string:"MPlayer" string:"Watching video"
It's pretty much the command-line version of what you have in your python DBUS-object code.
By the way, I only passed the 'file' argument to the script when testing, meaning I did not pass mplayer any other options via the python script. I don't know if that is relevant or not.
The gnome-screensaver command-line worked as well:
gnome-screensaver-command -i -n mplayer -r test
MPlayer used to have a command that simulated activity (−heartbeat−cmd) but it doesn't seem to be available anymore (at least not in the Arch version). Also, if you used xscreensaver, MPlayer's '-stop-xscreensaver' command is available.
Of course other alternatives could include simply killing gnome-screensaver and then restarting it via a script, though that may not be as elegant as using built-in commands or DBUS signals.
Edit:
Tested with gnome + openbox here. I only have XFCE-WM4 installed (not the full XFCE desktop) and I didn't test that yet.
Last edited by MrWeatherbee (2008-01-24 15:06:25)

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