I don't follow where anything in bug #505149 is worth looking at other
then it's the same problem affecting mplayer-gui. I'm glad that someone
mentioned bug #428884 since I was wondering why heartbeat-cmd wasn't
working. I wanted to clarify something here. stop-xscreensaver has
nothing to do with gnome-screensaver. gnome-screensaver and xscreensaver
are different packages with different methods of disabling them. As far
as Ubuntu is concerned, xscreensaver is long deprecated. As per gnome-
screensaver in this particular case, using the most recent update of all
packages (including mplayer-nogui in my case), I don't see mplayer
saying that it is disabling screensavers as it did in previous versions
of ubuntu (8.10 previously on this computer and 9.04 on my workstation
at work). mplayer would, by default, attempt to stop xscreensaver and
gnome-screensaver (separately since they are not combined) and would say
so on the console window when you run it, Also I think it's worth noting
that mplayer does not have the ability to disable gnome-screensaver
natively and instead has relied on a patch.

http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-
eng/attachments/20070715/67c23cbf/attachment.obj

For what it's worth, since this problem is old and no one has fixed it
at this point. I would suggest to everyone else to get the mplayer svn,
patch with the link I just pasted and compile that. I would uninstall
mplayer-gui first however you don't have to since /usr/local/bin takes
precedence in the default bash PATH variable over /usr/bin and /bin

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