Screen goes to sleep when told not to
Bug #805386 reported by
Pierre Rudloff
This bug affects 13 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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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) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
vlc (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
xdg-utils (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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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
Changed in xdg-utils (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in xdg-utils: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
Changed in gnome-screensaver: | |
importance: | Unknown → High |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in vlc: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in vlc: | |
status: | New → Unknown |
Changed in gnome-screensaver: | |
status: | Confirmed → Won't Fix |
Changed in vlc: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in vlc: | |
status: | New → Unknown |
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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.