Re: screensaver events

Sun Jan 12 2003, Damien U wrote:
> Hey Ogle developers!
> 
> Firstly, thanks for a great DVD program, I've thrown every DVD I own
> at it, and it has played them all, menu's and everything! It also
> uses all 4 of my speakers, which is a nice bonus (now only if games
> would start doing that!).

Thanks, we do hope people like it.

> I am just posting a small feature request (I hope this is the
> correct list for that). I was wondering if a future version of Ogle
> could send screensaver events every few minutes (configurable) like
> xine does. This is a really nice feature because you don't have to
> remember to turn off your screensaver when u start playing a DVD :)

It already does, though you need to be using a sufficiently new
version of xscreensaver.  (It prints some messages to this affect during 
startup).  We've added (I think) disabling of the X built blanker and 
DPMS suspend/power off methods in cvs.

What screen saver do you run?

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