Thanks for the clarification - that's exactly what I expected. So Chrome/Chromium inhibits power management, not just the screensaver, therefore the dimming doesn't occur.
Both VLC and Parole inhibit the screensaver, not power management, therefore dimming still occurs (even after your patch). So while this doesn't address the OP's bug directly it may be all we can do within the power manager directly. I would suggest we implement the power manager inhibition in Parole and the OP submits an issue against VLC. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1772325 Title: Screen dims while a video is playing in VLC To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xfce4-power-manager/+bug/1772325/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
