Oh....rats.... screensaver activates itself

[Jim Cornette]

Tom Killian wrote:
>> gnome-screensaver should be located under the System > Preferences >
>> Screensaver menu selection. I believe you can select to disable the
>> screensaver, stop it from locking the desktop and the like from there.
> 
> Does anyone know a way of doing this through a script?  It would be
> nice if mplayer, for example, could disable and then restore the
> screen saver.
> 

I watched a movie using xine and xscreensaver-base where the screensaver 
never kicked in except when I paused the DVD for a bit to do something.

gnome-screensaver is said to take advantage of the message bus. I don't 
see why the screensaver cannot read video memory, differentiate between 
  the video content a minute or two earlier, if checksum is the same, 
engage, otherwise do nothing at all.

Jim