Ubuntu
vlc package

  1. Bug #805386
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 805386

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Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis) wrote :

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/standard way to inhibit the screensaver and the display blanking.

So my guess is that xdg-utils is buggy in Ubuntu.