On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 02:27:45PM -0430, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > Hi Jakob, I cannot reproduce this issue, please can you tell me which > things was you actually trying lately?... If you call it while not > active does respond you?
Oh, interesting, I hadn't tried that. If the xscreensaver is active, running "xscreensaver-command -deactivate" will deactivate it as expected. However, if the screensaver is *not* active, running "xscreensaver-command -deactivate" hangs for 10 seconds and times out. My only reason for wanting to run -deactivate while it isn't active is to periodically heartbeat to keep xscreensaver from blanking the screen, like when using mplayer to play a long movie, when I don't want it to be interrupted. This is an example usage for the -deactivate flag in the xscreensaver-command manpage, and is suggested by mplayer's documentation as well, by using: $ mplayer -heartbeat-cmd "xscreensaver-command -deactivate" file This had been working fine previously. Thanks, Jakob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
