Power management considers computer as inactive while playing a video

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Binary package hint: totem

In power management (gnome-power-preferences), "On Battery Power" > "Put display to sleep when inactive for 0:10".

I play a video with totem, and every 10 minutes, the screen switch off, while playing a video should be considered as "active".

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: totem 2.31.90-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Sep 23 15:10:09 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta amd64 (20100901.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fr_FR.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem

[Serhiy Trylis (tryk)]

http://projects.gnome.org/totem/

Q: Why does my screen go into power saving mode whilst the player is actually playing a video?
A: You will either need gnome-screensaver and gnome-power-manager running, or none of those two. Totem talks to gnome-screensaver to stop the screensaver itself, which in turn talks to gnome-power-manager to avoid going into power saving modes. If none of those are running, Totem will use X directly to disable the screensaver.

Isn't it the case?

[André Machado (andreferreiramachado-deactivatedaccount)]

This also affects me on 10.04. I followed the above hint, but still hapening. While screensaver is disabled, monitor is turned off when watching a full screen movie, what obey me to move mouse periodically, It's a shame!

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, it has been some time without any response or feedback in this bug report and we are wondering if this is still an issue for you with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal, May you please test with that version and comment back if you're still having or not the issue? Please have a look at http://www.ubuntu.com/download to know how to install that version. Thanks in advance and sorry for the late response.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!