https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353538
Bug ID: 353538 Summary: screen switches off when playing video in VLC or even when screen blanking is switched off Product: Powerdevil Version: 5.4.1 Platform: Other OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: NOR Component: general Assignee: plasma-devel@kde.org Reporter: mar...@lichtvoll.de I had this in KDE SC 4 times already. During playback of a movie with VLC the screen switches off after a while. This even happens when I disable screen blanking and screen switching off in *all* of the powerdevil energy profiles. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Play a movie with VLC. Or 1. Disable screen blanking and switching off in all profiles. Actual Results: Screen still blanks. Even tough while playing a movie with VLC powerdevil plasma applet actually reported that VLC inhibits power saving. Expected Results: Screen does not blank. In KDE SC 4.14 times this helped: martin@merkaba:~/bin#130> cat noblank.sh #!/bin/sh while true; do qdbus org.kde.screensaver /ScreenSaver SimulateUserActivity ; sleep 60 ; done But with Plasma 5 this script has no effect. The method is still available though. Additionally I tried xset -dpms but it had no effect either. I use activities, but none of it has special energy saving settings. So I expect the global settings to apply. This happens on ThinkPad T520 with two screens: martin@merkaba:~> phoronix-test-suite system-info Phoronix Test Suite v5.2.1 System Information Hardware: Processor: Intel Core i5-2520M @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 42433WG, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 300GB INTEL SSDSA2CW30 + 480GB Crucial_CT480M50, Graphics: Intel HD 3000 (1300MHz), Audio: Conexant CX20590, Monitor: P24T-7 LED, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 Software: OS: Debian unstable, Kernel: 4.3.0-rc3-tp520-btrfstrim+ (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.2, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20150911, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 3840x1080 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel