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tjwoosta

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Registered: 2008-12-18

Posts: 453

VLC keeps automatically starting gnome-power-manager, why?

Ive been running fluxbox as my main WM for a long time now. Recently I installed VLC, and every time I watch a movie it automatically starts gnome-power-manager. I have double checked my .fluxbox/startup and my xinitrc and even my rc.conf but there is no mention of gnome-power-manager or gnome-settings-dameon or anything gnome anywhere. It seems to only happen with VLC. Why does this keep happening?

I don't want to use gnome-power-manager in fluxbox, but I have another user that uses gnome as the default wm so I don't want to remove gnome either. How can I stop this behavior?

Last edited by tjwoosta (2009-09-13 19:00:19)

loafer

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From: the pub

Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 1,772

Re: VLC keeps automatically starting gnome-power-manager, why?

The only thing I can think of is the screen saver option in vlc.

Go to Tools / Preferences and click the All radio button select Video and see if Disable screensaver is selected.  If not disable it and see if it fixes the problem.

edit:  typos

Last edited by loafer (2009-09-13 19:13:12)

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tjwoosta

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Registered: 2008-12-18

Posts: 453

Re: VLC keeps automatically starting gnome-power-manager, why?

Hey it worked! Thank you.

It was actually the opposite though. The box that says disable screensaver was already checked.  After I unchecked the box it doesn't start gnome-power-manager anymore.