Inhibit screensaver when playing videos
Bug #1068576 reported by
Steven Roose
This bug affects 7 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WebApps: libunity-webapps |
New
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Wishlist
|
Unassigned | ||
| unity-webapps-youtube (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
|
Low
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
When playing videos on YouTube and being idle, the screensaver may start. This is something unexpected and is also something that doesn't happen with Totem or other video players.
The unity-webapps-
Original description:
I don't know how it is in Firefox, but in Chromium, when you play flash movies, your computer will still go to sleep and/or dim the screen after a certain time.
It's hard to avoid this for all flash video, but for YouTube this really can be avoided by this webapp extension.
| summary: |
- Screensaver should be turned off while viewing video + Inhibit screensaver when playing videos |
| description: | updated |
| Changed in unity-webapps-youtube (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| description: | updated |
| Changed in webapps-applications: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| affects: | webapps-applications → libunity-webapps |
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| Kai Mast (kai-mast) wrote | #1 |
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In my opinion this should be fixed independently of the webapps
Is this html5 videos? Flash videos or both?
For flash you can always use caffeine (which should be in the default distribution imo) and for html5 I already filed a bug:
https:/
I think flash videos will be gone soon (at least for youtube) so we should focus on html5.