Smarter Screen saver

[Sami Dalouche]

Well, in the case totem crashes, the lock would never been removed, I'm not sure
this idea is the killer-idea, but there definitely must be a way to accomplish
this easily..

Sami Dalouche

Quoting lakcaj <dlist at ubuntuforums.org>:

>
> It would be very easy to implement.  All you would need is a simple lock
> file that xscreensaver looks for before starting.  For example, when
> totem starts a DVD, it creates the file /var/run/noscreeny_totem.pid.
> When it stops, it removes that file.  Same for mplayer, except
> noscreeny_mplayer.pid would be created.  I'm sure it would be trivial
> for someone that can code to make xscreensaver check for any files that
> start with noscreeny in /var/run before it starts.
>
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