What did you dist upgrade from? If it was Ubuntu 17.10 you are probably running Wayland, which is most likely the problem. They reverted back to Xorg with 18.04, but if you upgraded from 17.10 it may have carried Wayland as the default from that. Wayland breaks many things, not the least of which is the screensaver API.
On Tue, May 8, 2018, 3:41 PM John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote: > On Fri, 9 Feb 2018 20:48:55 -0800 > John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> dijo: > > >VLC 3.0 has recently been released, but at this time Ubuntians can only > >install it via Snap. > > <Much discussion of Snap deleted.> > > Having just dist-upgraded two computers to Ubuntu 18.04 I find that > both now have VLC 3.0.1. Unfortunately, the bug that causes it to fail > to disable the screensaver is still not fixed. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
