XScreenSaver

Hi

My XScreenSaver is configured to come on and then a bit
later suspend the
monitors...now this works, but only sometimes actually gets
around to
suspending the monitors. I emailed the author a while ago
about it and he
suggested I turned on logging...there doesn't seem to be an
option in
XScreenSaver for logging, so my question is what logging is
he talking about
and how do I use it? (he thought the mouse was moving ever
so slightly every
now and then, but this isn't the case since I unplugged my
mouse last night
and it still didn't suspend)

Thanks
Bruce Alcock
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On Wed, October 17, 2007 08:48, Bruce Alcock wrote:
> Hi
>
> My XScreenSaver is configured to come on and then a bit
later suspend
> the
> monitors...now this works, but only sometimes actually
gets around to
> suspending the monitors. I emailed the author a while
ago about it and
> he
> suggested I turned on logging...there doesn't seem to
be an option in
> XScreenSaver for logging, so my question is what
logging is he talking
> about
> and how do I use it? (he thought the mouse was moving
ever so slightly
> every
> now and then, but this isn't the case since I unplugged
my mouse last
> night
> and it still didn't suspend)
>
> Thanks
> Bruce Alcock

Bruce,

Read the manpage "-verbose" option. Logging is
sent to stderr, you
might need to pipe it to a file.

This might be a problem with ACPI rather than the
XScreenSaver
software itself.

-- 
Kelvin
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Hi

I've determined it's a combination of mplayer and
xscreensaver that causes
the problem. One of the flags I use for mplayer is the
-stop-xscreensaver
option. Now this works fine, with the video not being
interrupted by
xscreensaver, and after the video the xscreensaver timer
starts again and
will launch in its normal period.

The problem lies with the DPMS stuff...after using mplayer
-stop-xscreensaver, although the screensaver comes on, it
never blanks or
suspends. I've bound a shortcut in my Fluxbox window manager
to
"xscreensaver-command -restart" and if I hit this,
when xscreensaver comes
on it does suspend and everything as meant to...

Any ideas? I'm thinking it's possibly a bug with mplayer?

Regards
Bruce Alcock


On 10/17/07, Kelvin Woods <kelvinzednought.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, October 17, 2007 08:48, Bruce Alcock wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > My XScreenSaver is configured to come on and then
a bit later suspend
> > the
> > monitors...now this works, but only sometimes
actually gets around to
> > suspending the monitors. I emailed the author a
while ago about it and
> > he
> > suggested I turned on logging...there doesn't seem
to be an option in
> > XScreenSaver for logging, so my question is what
logging is he talking
> > about
> > and how do I use it? (he thought the mouse was
moving ever so slightly
> > every
> > now and then, but this isn't the case since I
unplugged my mouse last
> > night
> > and it still didn't suspend)
> >
> > Thanks
> > Bruce Alcock
>
> Bruce,
>
> Read the manpage "-verbose" option. Logging
is sent to stderr, you
> might need to pipe it to a file.
>
> This might be a problem with ACPI rather than the
XScreenSaver
> software itself.
>
> --
> Kelvin
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