Bug#768326: mate-power-manager: screen goes blank while playing video/movie.

[shirish शिरीष]

Package: mate-power-manager
Version: 1.8.1+dfsg1-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
   * What led up to the situation?

I don't know who's at fault, whether it's my application vlc, whether
it's mate-power-preferences or mate-screensaver-preferences. While
watching a movie (use vlc) for some reason the software thinks that
the system is idle and goes into screensaver/power-saving mode. This I
hadn't had while using Gnome.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

I have no idea what to do/help debug the situation.

   * What was the outcome of this action?
   * What outcome did you expect instead?

I have two scenarios where I want the mate-power-preferences and
mate-screensaver-preferences should not work and work. When I'm
watching a movie, then neither of them should interfere, whereas if
vlc is not playing and the system deems it likely that the system is
idle, the screensaver and power-preferences go into effect.

I would like to know if it's possible.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-updates'), (1,
'experimental'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mate-power-manager depends on:
ii  consolekit                                      0.4.6-5
ii  dbus-x11                                        1.8.8-2
ii  libatk1.0-0                                     2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                                           2.19-12
ii  libcairo2                                       1.14.0-2.1
ii  libcanberra-gtk0                                0.30-2.1
ii  libcanberra0                                    0.30-2.1
ii  libdbus-1-3                                     1.8.8-2
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                                0.102-1
ii  libfontconfig1                                  2.11.0-6.1
ii  libfreetype6                                    2.5.2-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                              2.31.1-2+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                    2.42.0-2
ii  libgnome-keyring0                               3.12.0-1+b1
ii  libgtk2.0-0                                     2.24.25-1
ii  libmate-panel-applet-4-1                        1.8.1+dfsg1-2
ii  libnotify4                                      0.7.6-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                                  1.36.8-2
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                             1.36.8-2
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0                               1.36.8-2
ii  libunique-1.0-0                                 1.1.6-5
ii  libupower-glib3                                 0.99.1-3
ii  libx11-6                                        2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxext6                                        2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxrandr2                                      2:1.4.2-1
ii  libxrender1                                     1:0.9.8-1
ii  mate-notification-daemon [notification-daemon]  1.8.1-1
ii  mate-power-manager-common                       1.8.1+dfsg1-1
ii  notification-daemon                             0.7.6-2
ii  plasma-widgets-workspace [notification-daemon]  4:4.11.13-1
ii  policykit-1                                     0.105-7
ii  systemd                                         215-5+b1
ii  upower                                          0.99.1-3
ii  xfce4-notifyd [notification-daemon]             0.2.4-3

Versions of packages mate-power-manager recommends:
ii  udisks  1.0.5-1+b1

Versions of packages mate-power-manager suggests:
ii  mate-polkit  1.8.0+dfsg1-4

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          Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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