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Forgive me if there is a solution to this, but I haven't been able to find one. The ability to prevent the screen saver from starting during full screen apps would be a nice feature. Having the screen saver pop on during a movie is annoying, but if you do something like pause a Windows game you are testing in Wine to help your wife with something, bad things happen when the screen saver starts.
For now my solution is to set screen saver to 200 minutes before starting a movie and now before starting a game.

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Or, which Linux Mint version are you using, what desktop environment, and what program are you using for playback of movies?

Laptop
Toshiba Satellite - AMD Sempron SI-42 2.1GHz - 2GB DDR2 - ATI Radeon 3100 - Mint 13 Xfce

I watch movies on Hulu with Firefox. Touching the mouse pad will get things back to normal.

The game was Freelancer v1.0 Wine 1.5.22. The only way I could get control back, short of
rebooting, was ctrl+alt+backspace.

Have you tried in Settings > Power Manager > On AC -> Monitor, and there disabling the monitor going to sleep?

I keep that set to never, because you can't set it for more than a hour.

The problem happened when the screensaver started not from the screen turning off. The screen was
still on and the screensaver was running, but looked like 2 fps.

My settings in Menu - Settings - Screensaver (XScreenSaver 5.15)
Display Mode tab
Blank After = I change depending on what I'm doing from 15 for general use to 222 for video and now games.
Cycle After = 1
Advanced tab
Display Power Management section
Standby After = 120
Suspend After = 180
Off After = 240