Xscreensaver overrides vlc smplayer and caffeine

[lotuspsychje]

Ubuntu desktop 18.04.1 up to date to latest @ 31/8/2018

When playing a movie on vlc, smplayer or totem xscreensaver overrides the movie ontop
even with settings enabled to block screensaver or an active caffeine lock.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: xscreensaver 5.36-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-33.36-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-33-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Aug 31 11:46:20 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-08-17 (13 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=nl_BE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xscreensaver
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Jeff Vehrs (icemanv9)]

I have a same experience with ESPN from Firefox playing the video (in full screen) of Miami-LSU football game. Screensaver came on once too many times. It shouldn't be happening as it's 18.04 version! It felt like some developer took out the "fix" code out.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[lotuspsychje (lotuspsychje)]

tested both on Xorg & Wayland, bug persists

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

just tested & have this issue in 19.04 (LXQt desktop & vlc)
in `vlc` i had 'disable screensaver' ticked, but xscreensaver still hid vlc (both when vlc was playing in a window, or was fullscreen)

due to [a requested] test earlier today i was using an old version of xscreensaver when I first tried, ie.

xscreensaver:
  Installed: 5.36-1ubuntu1
 *** 5.36-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/universe amd64 Packages

i then closed vlc, and upgraded to the standard disco (19.04) version of xscreensaver. i restarted the xscreensaver daemon & re-tested, again vlc was overwritten [on display] by xscreensaver

// following [trimmed] output was after xscreensaver was back to 19.04's default version
guiverc@d960-ubu2:~$ apt-cache policy vlc xscreensaver
vlc:
  Installed: 3.0.6-1
 *** 3.0.6-1 500
        500 http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/ubuntu disco/universe amd64 Packages
xscreensaver:
  Installed: 5.42+dfsg1-1ubuntu1
 *** 5.42+dfsg1-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/ubuntu disco/universe amd64 Packages

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[lotuspsychje (lotuspsychje)]

still affected in 20.04 development branch @ 26/11/2019

[dragonpharaoh (p-darryl)]

Same problem on Ubuntu 18.04. Xscreen ignores Caffeine

caffeine --version
caffeine 2.9.7
xscreensaver -v
xscreensaver 5.36, copyright (c) 1991-2016 by Jamie Zawinski <email address hidden>.
xscreensaver: 17:53:52: running as
xscreensaver: 17:53:52: in process 14560.
xscreensaver: 17:53:52: already running on display :0 (window 0x1e00006)
 from process 3250

[Snoopy (snoopy-snoopyvirtualstudio)]

This bug is still not resolved in Ubuntu 22.04

caffeine --version
caffeine 2.9.8
xscreensaver -v
xscreensaver 5.45

xscreensaver continues ignoring caffeine