I’m running Totem-xine and the screensaver keeps coming on during a movie. I’ve Googled this problem and read the resulting pages. There were bug reports to Ubuntu about this. I couldn’t find any info on how to fix it though. The last thing that I found said that “the bug is known and fixed upstream”. What does that mean? Does it mean that if I update my distro it is fixed in the latest release? I’m currently using Ubuntu Dapper. The page I’m referring to is here. The couple of other pages I found on Google didn’t have how to fix it either.
I’ve posted this question to a mailing list I’m on too so whatever answers I get I’ll post them here also.
I often come back to my blog to look up answers to technical questions I’ve posted here, especially if I don’t have my laptop with me. It’s proven useful to others sometimes too going by the comments that I get, so I’m glad that it’s helpful to others.
I didn’t really get the kind of answers to this that I was hoping for. Most people said update Totem or update your operating system. The other response I got was disable the screensaver before playing the movie.
Thanks to everyone who replied!
Kylie
ScottK (from Ubuntu Launchpad group) says, “It [fixed upstream] means Gnome has already fixed the bug and the fix will be in Gutsy.”
Thanks for bringing attention to this issue! I googled this subject and came across your page.
Thanks Scott for the clear and simple explanation!
Kylie
And here we are, half way through 2011, and the definition of "fixed upstream" seems a little more vague. My netbook is running xubuntu 10.10 (so it's using xscreensaver and not gnome-screensaver) and it has the same problem.
Swimming and swimming, and it seems we're not yet upstream.
Wow 4 years later and it's still a problem.