Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: totem
Ok, this is really weird. I know that gnome-power-manager's inhibition
features have been migrated over to be handled by gnome-session, and the
g-p-m features for that were deprecated in gnome 2.28.
What I'm seeing here is that
- totem does seem to inhibit the screensaver (contrary to what other bug
reports say), however:
- it sometimes "forgets" to release the inhibition. If you run it with --debug,
you can see errors such as this one:
j...@kusanagi:~$ totem --debug Vidéos/8-bit\ trip.mp4
(totem:4604): GLib-WARNING **: GError set over the top of a previous GError or
uninitialized memory.
This indicates a bug in someone's code. You must ensure an error is NULL before
it's set.
The overwriting error message was: Method "AllowActivation" with signature ""
on interface "org.gnome.ScreenSaver" doesn't exist
** (totem:4604): WARNING **: Problem inhibiting the screensaver: Method
"UnInhibit" with signature "u" on interface "org.gnome.ScreenSaver"
doesn't exist
Now, I'm not sure exactly why, the inhibition sometimes seems to work,
sometimes not. When it doesn't work,
- the screen will not blank anymore, the session will not go idle (and will not
lock)
- if you attempt to log out of gnome, you will get a warning about totem
(sometimes, multiple instances of totem!) being busy and inhibiting (while
totem has only a single instance, and it is long gone).
I hope I'm clear enough and that this info is helpful. One thing that is
certainly crucial to get right for Ubuntu 9.10 final is session
inhibition, especially when dealing with the default video player.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 10 23:08:38 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
Package: totem 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.44-generic-pae
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic-pae i686
** Affects: totem (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386
--
idle/screensaver inhibition feature doesn't work reliably in karmic
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/448438
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
--
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
