Dragon player (or any other KDE video player) should disable screensaver etc. when playing videos

[Christian Schürer-Waldheim]

Binary package hint: kdemultimedia

Dragon player (or any other KDE video player) should disable screensaver etc. when playing videos. Bug #321165 says that this kind of feature should be there, but it doesn't work for me (using KDE 4.3 - karmic packages). Dragon player doesn't switch PowerDevil to an other profile, so it is still locking the screen during playing videos/DVDs.

[Yann (cactux)]

I just watched a movie on a freshly installed Kubuntu 9.04 with all updates: I confirm this bug.

[Nick Hoffman (nick-deadorange)]

This affects me using both Dragon Player and VLC.

I'm running:
KUbuntu 9.10
KDE 4.3.2
Dragon Player 4.3.2-0ubuntu1
VLC 1.0.2-1ubuntu2

[Shabakthanai (stevenvollom)]

This comment is for a bug i was reporting about Dragonplayer. i typed a detailed report of the problems I was having, then read an instruction to follow a link to make sure I was reporting the information accurately and completely. i read the instruction and felt that I followed the format pretty well and tried to return to submit my report. When I tried going back, my report never appeared in the order of return pages. I do not know if the report was entered. I do not want to duplicate my comments. I did, as a last entry, include my email address to simplify any response anyone might want to make. <email address hidden>
I am very thorough and believe my explanation will be very helpful, so if you have it, fine, however, if it was deleted due to the procedure I followed, please let me know: I will resubmit. Thanks! Steven

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Hi there!

Thanks for reporting this bug! Your bug seems to be a problem with the KDE program itself, and not with our KDE packages. While we appreciate your issue, it would be better if it was tracked at https://bugs.kde.org, so that the KDE developers can deal with this speedily and have direct communication with you as the reporter for more effective debugging.

Thanks!

[Christian Schürer-Waldheim (quincunx)]

The problem still exists with dragonplayer in maverick. According to bug #365770, libxtst-dev could be needed as a build-depend.

[Alessandro Ghersi (alessandro-ghersi)]

I will try to fix for KDE 4.5 RC1

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

That package is completely and entirely unrelated in this case. Dragon player is a KDE4 application, and KDE4's screensaver inhibition stack is completely different than KDE4's. As noted in comment #4, this is a KDE issue, not a packaging issue, and a bug report should be filed upstream.

[Petka (solovjevps)]

On 21.06.2010 02:42, Jonathan Thomas wrote:
> That package is completely and entirely unrelated in this case. Dragon
> player is a KDE4 application, and KDE4's screensaver inhibition stack is
> completely different than KDE4's. As noted in comment #4, this is a KDE
> issue, not a packaging issue, and a bug report should be filed upstream.
>
> ** Changed in: kdemultimedia (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Invalid
>
> ** Changed in: kdemultimedia (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: Alessandro Ghersi (alessandro-ghersi) => (unassigned)
>

I have find source of problem: Dragon player disables screen saver, but
NOT disables power management. In some cases power management switch off
display power. It is seems like screen saver occurred.