Re: Prevent screen from going to sleep

[Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org>]

Emmanuele Bassi wrote:

> On 1 March 2012 09:24, Marco <netuse lavabit 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.

FWIW http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/4739


        Fred