Screen goes to sleep when told not to
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GNOME Screensaver |
Won't Fix
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High
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| VLC media player |
Unknown
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Unknown
|
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| Xdg-utils |
Fix Released
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Medium
|
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| gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu) |
Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| vlc (Ubuntu) |
Low
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Unassigned | ||
| xdg-utils (Ubuntu) |
High
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
I have told VLC to disable the power manager, but my screen still becomes black every 5 minutes.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: vlc 1.1.9-1ubuntu1.2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jul 4 11:32:46 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=fr_FR:en
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: vlc
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Related branches
Pierre Rudloff (rudloff) wrote : | #1 |
Pierre Rudloff (rudloff) wrote : | #3 |
Sorry, I forgot to say that I am using Xfce. (I don't know if that changes anything.)
Changed in xdg-utils (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis) wrote : | #4 |
Still waiting for clarification as to what is The One Correct API to suspend the screensaver in Ubuntu and its derivatives... Until then, there will be any resolution from upstream.
James Pursey (jamespursey) wrote : | #5 |
I encounter this problem in 11.10 using Unity.
Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis) wrote : | #6 |
And still waiting for the requested infos in upstream bug. 5 months and counting.
Juan Montoya (th3pr0ph3t) wrote : | #7 |
gnome-screensav
Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis) wrote : | #8 |
VLC currently uses xdg-screensaver (from xdg-utils). At some point, it uses X11 screensaver reset also, but it hit a performance bug in a number of Xorg drivers, so it had to be removed.
I don't know any other FreeDesktop/
So my guess is that xdg-utils is buggy in Ubuntu.
Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote : | #9 |
vlc appears to use both "xscreensaver-
(Source: modules/
Changed in vlc (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote : | #10 |
The "--poke" option is unknown to gnome-screensav
Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote : | #11 |
From looking at the "strace -f" output for vlc, it appears that xdg-screensaver is being called, but ends with "xscreensaver-
Then gnome-screensav
Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote : | #12 |
"--poke" has been removed in gnome-screensaver 2.91.91: "Remove --poke option from the commandline tool (didn't work anyway)"
I assume it broke during the transition to Gnome 3?!
Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote : | #13 |
xdg-utils calls "gnome-
case "$1" in
suspend)
result=0
;;
Changed in xdg-utils (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in vlc (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Medium → Low |
Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote : | #14 |
There appears to be a fix upstream in xdg-utils already since March:
http://
affects: | gnome-screensaver → xdg-utils |
Changed in xdg-utils: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote : | #16 |
This bug was fixed in the package xdg-utils - 1.1.0~rc1-2ubuntu6
---------------
xdg-utils (1.1.0~
* Use D-Bus API for GNOME screensaver
- debian/
- LP: #805386
-- Daniel Hahler <email address hidden> Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:06:10 +0200
Changed in xdg-utils (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Released |
Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote : | #17 |
It seems like everything that needed sponsoring in this bug was uploaded already, so I'll unsubscribe the sponsors team. Does this still need a separate fix in vlc?
The attachment "xdg-utils_
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tags: | added: patch |
Didier Roche (didrocks) wrote : | #19 |
tested and confirmed that the fix was enough, closing the bug.
Changed in vlc (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Invalid |
Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan) wrote : | #20 |
See also bug 497318.
Changed in gnome-screensaver: | |
importance: | Unknown → High |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in vlc: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in vlc: | |
status: | New → Unknown |
Forage (forage) wrote : | #21 |
The issue is also present in my setup:
- Ubuntu 12.10 GNOME remix (x64)
- VLC 2.0.4+git201211
Changed in gnome-screensaver: | |
status: | Confirmed → Won't Fix |
Changed in vlc: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in vlc: | |
status: | New → Unknown |
Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis) wrote : | #23 |
The issue should be fixed with GNOME 3.10 according to the VLC bug report.
I am looking for a clear technical specification as to how VLC is supposed to inhibit the screensaver. Until then, this is not going to get fixed. See the upstream bug for further discussion.
I would argue this is an xdg-screensaver (xdg-utils) bug anyway.