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kaffeine package

  1. Bug #365770
  2. Comment #30

Comment 30 for bug 365770

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Philipp Kern (pkern) wrote : Re: [Bug 365770] Re: Screensaver starts while playing a Video with Kaffeine

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:37:32AM -0000, alfredio wrote:
> I noticed there may be some bad interaction between gnome-screensaver
> and power managment. Indeed, my problem is that the screen turns off,
> rather than the screensaver starting. Disabling turn-off feature in
> power management seems to solve the issue. Maybe disabling the
> screensaver should disable turn-off feature too (and thus is a gnome
> bug)?

Hm, does inhibit (gnome-screensaver-command -i) also deactivate this
turn off feature? It's true that it only blanks the screen and not
lock it. Still it seems that the right hooks aren't called as it
works with vlc & co. just fine

Ciao,
Philipp Kern