If the mouse cursor is is on the portion of the screen where the video is while the video is playing, and the timeout is reached, the mouse cursor vanishing causes the entire video to black out. It appears to continue to play, as the audio can still be heard. If I use smplayer (or mplayer itself from the command line), this does not happen. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Load the unclutter program in X11. 2. Load a video file in gnome-mplayer. (Apple trailers with gecko-mediaplayer work too.) 3. Place the mouse cursor on video. 4. Wait for unclutter to make the mouse cursor vanish. Actual Results: The video disappears. Expected Results: The video should not have disappeared. In retrospect, I think mplayerplug-in might have been demonstrating the same behavior. I only tried to track down what was causing the seemingly random video disappearance once I switched plugins. In case it's relevant, I'm using fluxbox-1.1.1-r1 and nvidia-drivers-173.14.18. $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.28-tuxonice-r10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-tuxonice-r10-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_Processor_2800+-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:45:02 +0000 distcc 3.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu [enabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.8-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r3 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d /usr/share/X11/xkb" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/var/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distcc distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/var/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acpi aim alsa audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts branding bzip2 cairo cdb cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt curl dbus divx divx4linux dri dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode evo exif fam fame fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gd gdbm gif gmedia gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv icq idn imagemagick isdnlog jack jbig jpeg jpeg2k libnotify mad midi mikmod mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg mudflap nas ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia offensive ogg openal opengl openmp pam pcre pdf pdflib perl plotutils png portaudio ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline realmedia reflection sdl session socks5 spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subtitles svg svga sysfs tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vcd vorbis win32codecs wmp x264 x86 xine xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="arm i386" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="arm armeb i386" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
There's very little us maintainers can do with this. Instead you should report this to, Ticketing system in http://code.google.com/p/gnome-mplayer and unclutter authors (no clue where that is) my 2 cents
I'm sorry to tell you that there is not much gentoo maintainers can do to resolve your issue, however the upstream developers as mentioned by Samuli Suominen will have a better idea on how to resolve your issue. Best of luck.
