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.
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
Does this really concern Plasma Active or is it actually Plasma Desktop / Netbook?
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?
If you can provide the information requested in comment #3, please add it.
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.
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.
Moving this to kscreensaver, hoping that is the correct product
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.
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.