xine no longer inhibits the screensaver
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xine-ui (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: xine-ui
Before Karmic, playing video in xine would automatically suspend the screensaver. Having updated to Karmic, the screensaver will now activate while video is playing.
Steps to reproduce:
1) Find a video longer than your screensaver time-out (or adjust the timeout to suit).
2) Play the video while not generating any keyboard or mouse activity
What happens:
The screensaver will activate after its time-out period.
What's expected:
The screensaver will not activate until after the video has ended.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 13 21:10:34 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: xine-ui 0.99.5+
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
LC_COLLATE=C
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: xine-ui
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic i686
Changed in xine-ui (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
I can confirm this behavior on the same xine-ui version.
This may or may not be related: the file /usr/share/ doc/xine- ui/changelog. Debian. gz mentions for this release
* Change screensaver control code to use xdg-screensaver instead of
faking keystrokes (Closes: #374644)
Unfortunately xdg-screensaver seems to rely on DCOP which on Karmic doesn't seem all that useful to control the screensaver:
$ xdg-screensaver lock
ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server!
$ dcopserver
$ xdg-screensaver lock
call failed
I seem to remember that DCOP is deprecated in KDE in favor of DBus these days, perhaps this might explain things?