On Sun, 2021-03-21 at 15:43 -0700, Dick Steffens wrote: > On 3/21/21 3:13 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 13:59:58 -0700 > > Dick Steffens <[email protected]> dijo: > > > > > Is there a way to tell the computer to suspend power management > > > while > > > watching a video that's longer than the set timeout? > > > > > > OS is Zubuntu 20.04 with XFCE. > > > > There is a setting in VLC to disable power management (i.e., stop > > the > > screen saver from coming on) while watching a video. It worked > > great > > until 18.04, and then stopped working. I now have 20.04 and it > > still > > doesn't work. > > > > When it first stopped working I searched the net and found advice > > on > > how to get it working again, but none of the suggestions ever > > worked. > > Sigh. I guess I'll just have to manually enter Presentation Mode and > then remember to exit it when I'm finished with the video. > >
AFAIK - this in now the duty of window manager (KDE/GNOME) and the application-->windowManager communication works through DBUS. It works pretty reliably for me in vanilla ubuntu 20.04 and other distros with working DBUS. I am not sure what exactly is zubuntu, and could not be bothered to look it up - perhaps switching to KDE/GNOME would fix that for you. Best, Tomas _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
