Comment 21 for bug 439787

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.

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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