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Exactly as I posted above. :D

Also in the xscreensaver manpage. :p

Does mplayer have a option that will disable screensavers?

From the xscreensaver manpage (man xscreensaver)



OR

xscreensaver-command -exit

I was thinking of that too, but then you would need to restart the daemon.

Hopefully the xscreensaver docs have something on temporarily disabling.

KDE/Gnome?

For KDE you could use the KDE Control Center to disable or see if there is a manpage for xscreensaver (man xscreensaver) or installed documentation that could possibly tell you how to...