[Bug 518884] [NEW] KDE display power management utilities turn screen off even when VLC is playing video

[Grigory Rechistov]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: vlc

I use Ubuntu 9.10 x86_64 with KDE 4.3.5 and VLC 1.0.2. There is a quite
annoying problem - when watching a movie with VLC for some time the
screen gets turned off and even locked by KDE.

I set up my system to tunr and lock the screen after 10 minutes of
idleness. But definitely watching a movie fullscreen is not right time
to apply any of screen powermanagement.

Here's the output of xset for my system.

ggg at lulz:~$ xset -q
Keyboard Control:
  auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000000
  auto repeat delay:  250    repeat rate:  30
  auto repeating keys:  00ffffffdffffbbf
                        fadfffefffedffff
                        9fffffffffffffff
                        fff7ffffffffffff
  bell percent:  50    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100
Pointer Control:
  acceleration:  20/10    threshold:  4
Screen Saver:
  prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes
  timeout:  0    cycle:  600
Colors:
  default colormap:  0x20    BlackPixel:  0    WhitePixel:  16777215
Font Path:
  /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType,built-ins,/home/ggg/.fonts
DPMS (Energy Star):
  Standby: 600    Suspend: 1200    Off: 2400
  DPMS is Enabled
  Monitor is On


As I know such problem can be solved by fake key pressing performed by a video application e.g. every 1 minute, but does there exist such an option for vlc?

** Affects: vlc (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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KDE display power management utilities turn screen off even when VLC is playing video 
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