Bug 310074

Summary:	lockscreen locks screen when full screen app running(e.g. movie)
Product:	[Unmaintained] kscreensaver	Reporter:	vaniaz
Component:	locker	Assignee:	kscreensaver bugs tracking <kscreensaver-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	oliver.henshaw, serhiy.int, thomas.pfeiffer, wikt.sztw+kdebugs
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description vaniaz 2012-11-14 08:30:58 UTC

When watching movies using kafeine or vlc screen gets locked after time specified in lockers setting. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open video
2. watch it for 5 minutes(default setting)
3. get screen locked
Actual Results:  
Screen locks.

Expected Results:  
It should not lock while watching movies.

Comment 1 vaniaz 2012-11-26 21:24:22 UTC

It uses time set to turn screen off even after unchecking chechbox to use it. If I set to lock screen after one minute and disable it, it will turn screen off after one minute. Sometimes. Sometimes it won't, I haven't found pattern. To "solve" the problem I can set huge time to lock screen, but it is a bad solution

Comment 2 Thomas Pfeiffer 2012-12-06 21:15:03 UTC

Does this really concern Plasma Active or is it actually Plasma Desktop / Netbook?

Comment 3 Oliver Henshaw 2013-04-03 14:00:17 UTC

vlc 2.1 will use the org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver api to inhibit screen interruptions. Kaffeine should be using the Solid::PowerManagement API, so I'd expect this to work. Is this still happening?

And, to repeat Thomas' question, are you talking about plasma active or the desktop/netbook shell?

Comment 4 Christoph Feck 2013-04-14 00:03:51 UTC

If you can provide the information requested in comment #3, please add it.

Comment 5 vaniaz 2013-04-14 07:17:12 UTC

Sorry, I was talking about desktop shell. 
No, have not noticed this bug in a while, but that can be due my settings(long time for a lockscreen to start). I will check it again and write back in a day or two.

Comment 6 vaniaz 2013-04-21 08:03:34 UTC

Still happens with vlc 2.06, I don't have newer version to test. It does not turn off/dim the screen, but lockscreen comes up after some time.

Comment 7 Thomas Pfeiffer 2013-04-21 09:22:38 UTC

Moving this to kscreensaver, hoping that is the correct product

Comment 8 Wiktor 2013-06-24 14:07:21 UTC

VLC from git works :) (testing on Arch Linux)

For me the problem is with videos on YT (Flash / HTML5). I think this is the right place to write about it.

Comment 9 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-04 04:06:11 UTC

Hello! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this project has been unmaintained for many years and I will be closing this bug. Please re-test and file a new bug with kscreenlocker if the issue persists.