-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jakob wrote: > 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 As Jamie stated in his email, works for me too, maybe you should try the latest xscreensaver, you could test the next-to-be uploaded version
http://debian.rivco.info/xscreensaver/5.05-3/ Regards. - -- Jose Luis Rivas. San Cristóbal, Venezuela. PGP: 0xCACAB118 http://ghostbar.ath.cx/{about,acerca} - http://debian.org.ve `ghostbar' @ irc.debian.org/#debian-ve,#debian-devel-es -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkhlw7cACgkQOKCtW8rKsRh22gCguFhzz4h5REpZ4c/t5Hmfrx17 zeoAoNYVEGTBQoUWYCR2H6bnXag8gnkg =ZDvc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
