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

[Neil Bird]

Around about 28/03/06 22:14, Tom Killian typed ...
> 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.

   If you use xscreensaver (not the gnome one) you can do 
'xscreensaver-command -throttle'.  I have this as a button on my panel for 
when I know I want to do stuff that wants the CPU.

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[neil at fnx ~]# rm -f .signature
[neil at fnx ~]# ls -l .signature
ls: .signature: No such file or directory
[neil at fnx ~]# exit