VLC being Weird

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#1

Hi all.
I have tried to fix this but I had no luck.
Whenever I am playing a video with VLC I still get the screensaver even if I have checked the Disable screensaver option under the video preferences.
I know there are bigger problems in life but this is really bugging me. Can please somebody share a work around?
I am using OpenSuSE 12.1, Gnome Shell and VLC 1.1.11, code name The Luggage. I had this problem since opensuse 11.4.
I will appreciate advices. Thank you!

I ran it from terminal last time and this is what I got

vlc --extraintf screensaver
VLC media player 1.1.11 The Luggage (revision exported)
[0x8ef900] main interface error: no suitable interface module
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
[0x6096e0] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")

(process:2538): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
	Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
[0x8f0590] signals interface error: signal 17 overridden (0x7fb2a51cf4d0)
[0x8f0590] signals interface error:  /usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4(?)(nil)]
[0x8f0590] signals interface error: signal 17 overridden (0x7fb2a51cf4d0)
[0x8f0590] signals interface error:  /usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4(?)(nil)]
[0x8f0590] signals interface error: signal 17 overridden (0x7fb2a51cf4d0)
[0x8f0590] signals interface error:  /usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4(?)(nil)]
#2

You should switch the screensaver off in Gnome settings

#3

Yes, Thank you that is a quick and dirty solution.
However I wanted no having to mess with my desktop manager settings. Since VLC has that option built in I was looking for just correct the problem and have a fully functional media player.

If there are more solutions I will be happy to heard them. Thank you again.

#4

Since VLC has that option built in

It doesn’t work

#5

Well Thank you. It will be nice if it get fixed though. Just like it work in other distros.

#6

Hi Caf, Ben,

I had a similar complaint and stumbled across this thread. Seems the preferences dialog and the config file disagree as to what the default “disable screensaver” setting is. I’m just going to manually edit vlcrc and give it a try now.

#7

Well spotted.
Sounds a bit buggy to me.

#8

Gave it a try last night. Still had the screen turning off every 10 minutes. Apper is telling me there is a vlc update. I’m going to install that and delete .configs/vlc and see what happens.

#9

I don’t recommend the use of Apper. But there we are…

#10

Well it’s better than kpackagekit was, still not as good as yast online update. Completely off topic for this thread but is there any way to get a notification in the system tray that updates are available and then fire-up yast?

#11

is there any way to get a notification in the system tray that updates are available and then fire-up yast?

Never looked at that
I just remember to do it at least once if not more times a week

#12

Back to the topic of this thread. I updated VLC and the screen-saver/power-management doesn’t kick in anymore. I can’t find release notes on the videolan.org website but I’m guessing something got fixed.

#13

Thank you I upgraded VLC to the latest release and worked fine for a while but now I am facing the problem that I dont get sound out it.

So I am using Mplayer instead.

Thank you for all the advices.

#14

I had a no-sound issue in VLC as well. In VLC, I went to Tools > Preferences > Audio. For “Output Module”, I selected ALSA; for “Device”, I picked the one with Analog front speakers. Sound came right back. It may work differently on you system, but you can always set it back to default.

~George

#15

I am a newcomer coming from Kubuntu 12.04. I’m using openSUSE 12.1 and Kde. What do you recommend instead of Apper? Yast? Is there a command I would use in a terminal to check for updates?

#16

On Fri, 18 May 2012 00:36:02 +0000, MoeNeigh wrote:

> caf4926;2421582 Wrote:
>> I don’t recommend the use of Apper. But there we are…
>
> I am a newcomer coming from Kubuntu 12.04. I’m using openSUSE 12.1 and
> Kde. What do you recommend instead of Apper? Yast? Is there a command I
> would use in a terminal to check for updates?

Welcome. :slight_smile:

zypper is the CLI tool in openSUSE. YaST Online Update would be the
corresponding GUI tool.

Jim

Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
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#17 
su -
zypper up

For general update

and

Type this in konqueror address bar:

man:zypper

for zypper info