On 2012-03-01 Emmanuele Bassi <eba...@gmail.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.
I will do that. > > Still, my setting should work regardless of the application > > I use. > > that's not how it works. :-) Could you then explain how the setting “sleep-display-battery|ac” works? It's not only VLC related. I sometimes have a PDF that I want to display without the screen being turned off. > applications can (and should) suspend the automatic blanking of > the screen, if they require it - for instance, video players, or > presentation programs. I totally agree. > 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. I get your point. But the automatism don't always work. What if I'm working on the shell and watch the output of a program. I have to press a button from time to time to keep my screen alive. It would be so easy to simply turn off the scrren blanking for the time the program is operating and I think that's exactly what “sleep-display-battery|ac” was made for. Correct me if I'm wrong. Marco _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
