Version: unspecified (using KDE 4.6.0) OS: Linux Currently, there is no way of simply turning off the screensaver for certain powermanagement profiles. Since more and more stuff happens within the browser, nothing stops the screensaver from kicking in, even in the Presentation profile (which apparently got lost, btw). Would be nice to have a simple solution for all the many apps that don't talk to the screensaver... Reproducible: Always
We should definitively implement this.
Firstly, browsers should be inhibiting the screensaver/screen power saving - see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=811261 and http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=103932 Disabling power management in the battery applet will also inhibit the screenlocker but selecting "Never shutdown the screen" for an activity will not. This is fixable by having the screenlocker ask powerdevil whether it should lock or by having powerdevil inhibit the screenlocker which will in turn inhibit powerdevil. Mildly tangled interactions like these are why I suspect all policy should be in one process.
Screen saver is now being blocked by a PM inhibition, and most browsers handle that nowadays when eg. watching a movie.