UpdatedĪs the OP tells in the comment, he is using the guide provided in the Help Cener of Ubuntu. If you prefer to use the most recent version that you compile yourself from the sources, then you should remove the version provided by Ubuntu : sudo apt-get purge mencoder mplayerĪfter doing so, your system will stop managing the update to these software, you will just need to compile from sources yourself each time you need a new recent version. Okay, this is actually really easy, if you’re using Chromium or Google Chrome or Firefox, you’ll just want to add the processes ‘npviewer.bin’ to list, you can use the above instructions to do so.If your system wants to update Mencoder and Mplayer, this is because you have installed them using the packages provided by the Ubuntu software repositories. Adding VLC to processes to disable the screensaver.įinally click the “Add” button and close the preferences window, that pesky screensaver should no longer be bothering you! Stopping Flash from enabling the screensaver: You should be greeted by a list of the running processes, select the name of the media player (this case, vlc) if it isn’t there check under the “Recent Processes” tab or alternatively just write the command you would use to run this program from the command line. List of processes already disabling the screensaver, note Totem is added here. Next, right click on the Caffeine tray icon and select “Preference”.Ĭlick the “Add” button. To add a process which will disable the screensaver from being activated, for example VLC so we can watch a movie without constantly having to wiggle the mouse:įirst, run VLC (or whatever other media player you wish and just replace VLC for that for the other few steps) Caffeine Running (Screensaver / Power Management Enabled) Caffeine Running (Right Click Settings) Caffeine Running (Screensaver / Power Management Disabled) Adding Processes: You’ll be able to see if caffeine is running by the tray icon the first time you use it (this can be disabled in the settings). Installation (Ubuntu): sudo add-apt-repository ppa:caffeine-developers/ppa It even comes with a little tray icon which allows you to manual enable or disable the screensaver/power management with a single click. Introducing: Caffeine, “An application to temporarily prevent the activation of both the screen saver and the “sleep” powersaving mode.” – Įssentially what this program does is look for processes running on your machine (you can do this too, just run ‘ps -A’ in a terminal emulator to see a list of everything), so you set process names which the program should look out for, for example ‘vlc’ and when there is a process with this name Caffeine disables the screensaver, when the process stops the screensaver is re-enabled. Luckily though there is a fix, it’s easy and it’s awesome. Something that should have been fixed thousands of releases ago, just like most common Linux problems. It’s a pretty common problem, one which could be solved by pretty much the following sentence: ‘, not stopping screen saver when playing videos.’ And, yeah, it’s very annoying.
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