This happens to me as well when watching any full screen video. It is not just VLC.
The video will flicker whenever a notification pops up. -- Still shows up and flickers the screen when watching in full screen via VLC Media Player https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/365003 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Notify OSD Developers, which is subscribed to Notify OSD. Status in Notify OSD: New Bug description: Ubuntu Jaunty RC 64-bit Related Applications: Pidgin 2.5.5-1ubuntu8 & VLC Media Player 0.9.9a-2ubuntu1 Notify-osd version: 0.9.11-0ubuntu3 --- While watching a movie using VLC Media Player in full screen mode, the notify-osd still pops-up/shows-up if it receives notifications, in my case from Pidgin. Additionally, the movie in full screen flickers for every notify-osd notification. First when it shows-up, then second when it disappears. At first it is easy to ignore, but after I got a continuous pidgin notification, looking at the screen starts to get painful (I can't think of the appropriate word). Also, it gets distracting over time. --- My thoughts/suggestions would be all or one of the ff: 1) An option to temporarily 'silence' notify-osd; and/or 2) A feature wherein only the important notifications will show-up (for example a critical or security update). As for Pidgin (and maybe other similar applications), 3) An option to set which notifications will the notify-osd 'notify' when there is a full screen application running like VLC. This way, a user can choose to be notified of (for example) IM Messages but all others are ignored. Or another user can choose to ignore all IM Messages. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
