I noticed that mplayer moves mouse cursor every 10 seconds:
ltrace -e '!read,select,vsnprintf,ioctl,XSync,XShmPutImage,malloc,memcpy,free,XNextEvent,XPending,sws_scale_ordered,pp_postprocess,avcodec_decode_video,strcmp,gettimeofday,nanosleep' -p `pidof mplayer`
XWarpPointer(0x8ce9480, 0x1800002, 0, 0, 0) = 1
XWarpPointer(0x8ce9480, 0x1800002, 0, 0, 0) = 1
...
Probably it is to trick possible screensaver. There are no -stop-xscreensaver
or mouse-related options speicfied.
How to turn off such behaviour?
mplayer
?MPlayer 1.0rc3-4.4.4 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
, Debian Squeeze default.