to get the script working with kde4 and amarok 1.4 you need to change line 11 to Quote:

I've recently had to use Amarok under Gnome. I've updated the script to work with Gnome which involved some slight refactoring. Since amarok seems to popular with Gnome users I expect others would benefit from this. Hurra if you are happy with this can you check it still works in KDE as I don't have access to KDE. Here it is inline as attachments don't seem to be supported (indentation seem to be lost also) << #!/bin/bash isScreenSaverBlanked () { # Check if GNOME is running if [ $GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID ]; then isBlanked=$(dbus-send --reply-timeout=2000 --print-reply --dest=org.gnome.ScreenSaver /org/gnome/ScreenSaver org.gnome.ScreenSaver.GetActive 2>&1 | grep boolean | grep true) if [ -n "$isBlanked" ];then return 1 fi else # assume KDE if [ $(dcop kdesktop KScreensaverIface isBlanked) = "true" ];then return 1 fi fi return 0 } while [ true ]; do isScreenSaverBlanked if [ $? = 1 ];then play_status=$(dcop amarok player status) if [ $play_status = 2 ];then $(dcop amarok player playPause) fi isScreenSaverBlanked while [ $? = 1 ]; do sleep 2 isScreenSaverBlanked done if [ $play_status = 2 ];then $(dcop amarok player playPause) fi fi sleep 5 done >>

This script is great but it stopped working for me when I upgraded to amarok 1.4.5. Replacing both occurences of dcop amarok player pause with dcop amarok player playPause fixes the problem.

Very useful script - It works fine for me. Two improvements:

1. The "sleep 1" is a bit quick for a script, I've upped it to 5 seconds,
2. There is a loop while the screen saver is on with no sleep at all. I changed mine to:
   
     b2=$(dcop kdesktop KScreensaverIface isBlanked)
     while [ $b2 = "true" ];
     do
           b2=$(dcop kdesktop KScreensaverIface isBlanked)
           sleep 2
     done

Very nice ;)