hi; On 1 March 2012 09:24, Marco <net...@lavabit.com> wrote: >> Any application which e.g. plays a movie can block the screen from >> turning off. > > When I watch movies in VLC the screen is still switched off after > ten minutes. Preferences → Advanced → “Inhibit the power management > daemon during playback” is activated. Maybe that is related to my > problem.
I'd suggest you file a bug against VLC in their bug tracking system. > Still, my setting should work regardless of the application > I use. that's not how it works. :-) applications can (and should) suspend the automatic blanking of the screen, if they require it - for instance, video players, or presentation programs. adding a potentially damaging setting (you disable power management -> your display never turns off -> you lose battery juice -> you lose documents, your backlight gets progressively worse, your battery gets progressively worse, etc) to paper over something that should be automatic is not a good use of the setting system, nor it is a good use of the user's time. ciao, Emmanuele. -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list