Screensaver activates during video playback
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-screensaver
Ubuntu 9.10, gnome-screensaver 2.28.0-0ubuntu3
To reproduce: start watching a video (which is longer than your screensaver idle tie). Enjoy the video and keep your hands away from the keyboard and mouse. The screensaver starts.
Expected behavior: The screensaver doesn't start counting idle time until the video ends.
I am filing against gnome-screensaver because I've observed this behavior with both Totem and vlc in Karmic. Since this behavior has changed since Jaunty, I suspect either a bug in gnome-screensaver or a change in how to inhibit the screensaver which breaks the prior mechanism used by totem and vlc (and possibly others).
I did see a note in the changelog about getting idle time from xorg. If that is the cause of this issue, I would be happy to post bugs against Totem and vlc, but it would be more effective if I could include information about how to properly inhibit gnome-screensaver.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Nov 4 06:10:34 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: gnome-screensaver 2.28.0-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: gnome-screensaver
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
This bug also affects SMPlayer/MPlayer.