Screen blanks/locks after 10 mins. of Flash video in Firefox

Mike Smith mike at mlsmith.net
Fri Oct 17 22:12:12 UTC 2014


I'm also having this issue on an Intel iMac. xset reports Standby: 0
Suspend: 0  Off: 0 and Light Locker is off.

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 2:38 PM, John Hupp <lubuntu at prpcompany.com> wrote:

> With a fully patched Lubuntu Trusty, streaming Flash video through Firefox
> results in the screen blanking and locking after 10 minutes.
>
> This sort of behavior is noted in https://bugs.launchpad.net/
> ubuntu/+source/xdg-utils/+bug/1309744 and https://bugs.launchpad.net/
> ubuntu/+source/xfce4-power-manager/+bug/1193716
>
> The bugs look like duplicates to me, but developers have not deemed it
> so.  There is a fix released for Bug 1193716, but only for Utopic.  There
> is a fix released for Bug 1309744 for Trusty, but it seems to me that if it
> works, it works only for media players, not for Firefox.  (See my comment
> #29 on Bug 1309744.)
>
> I have the recommended/most-recent version of xdg-utils specified in Bug
> 1309744.
>
> Anyone else confirm this behavior?  If so, do you have a workaround?
>
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