Sorry again for the long time of this report without attention, we are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. I've linked an upstream bug that seems to take care of this type of problem. In any case screensaving procedures have changed a lot in Gnome.
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #654250 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654250 ** Also affects: totem via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654250 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to totem in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/708317 Title: totem prevents screensaver/power management Status in Totem Movie Player: Unknown Status in “totem” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Binary package hint: totem Even though I'm just playing audio files and have set Preferences > Display > Disable screensaver when playing: Video, totem prevents my screensaver & power management settings for display to come active. Steps to reproduce. Set screensaver for 1 min and power management sleep to 5 minutes. Start playing audio with above stated config and wait for +5 minutes. You can notice that the screen is still on. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: totem 2.32.0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic 2.6.35.8 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Jan 26 22:29:57 2011 EcryptfsInUse: Yes ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100403) ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_DK.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: totem To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/totem/+bug/708317/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp