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Utini

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XFCE-Power-Manager ignores e.g. VLC playing mode

I am using XFCE-Power-Manager + xscreensaver.

xscreensaver handles the display blanking + display off and respects e.g. when VLC is playing (no display blanking then).
XFCE-Power-Manager doesn't respect that and will dim the display + put the laptop to sleep even if VLC is playing.

In VLC I have set to disable screensaver + prevent auto sleep/standby.

Is this a bug or is it intented to be like that ?

Thanks

From another thread I read this:

It just doesn't play nicely with XScreenSaver. This being because XScreenSaver overrides the DPMS and screensaver timeouts which are set by xfpm. Presentation mode works just fine without XScreenSaver around as xfpm has sole control of the timeouts.

Is this cause of the problem? If so, is there any fix ?

Thanks

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