Bug#768326:

[Mike Gabriel]

Control: tag -1 wontfix
Control: close -1

Hi shirish,

On  Do 06 Nov 2014 16:16:19 CET, shirish शिरीष wrote:

> severity 768326 important
> thanks
>
> Hi all,
> Raising the severity. The issue has been happening for about 2 months
> now and I don't know whether it's vlc responsible or
> mate-power-preferences or mate-screensaver-preferences. Somehow the
> two or three of them are not playing along well. Need more info. to
> diagnoze the same.

the MATE desktop has an applet for the exact use case that you describe.

MATE power manager ships an applet called the mate-inhibit-applet [1].

Please add that applet to your MATE panel and use it prior to starting  
the video file.

Now your screen will not blacken anymore.

Mike


[1] /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mate-power-manager/mate-inhibit-applet

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