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I feel extremely guilty for what I'm about to suggest, given that I raised the whole issue of best practice. Would it not be possible (and very easy) to send a keystroke, thereby convincing the computer that a human is at the helm? I use numlock to wake up sleeping screens all the time. I've done a ...

Do either of the above include/handle power-saving? I would have thought that it would be a part of ACPI - it does make (a perverse sort of) sense, you might wish to turn screen saving off and leave power saving on. That isn't the desire here, but I can see the sense in having that level of granular...

Power saving code is currently in each video output module, so if any program uses those, the issues will also show up in them also. That's kind of a strange place for it but I'm sure that there is some good reason for it (or that may just be my naivety in regards to the code base - it could be hel...

If it is specific to VLC's libraries it should be reproducible in any application that uses said libraries. I can't really find any evidence supporting this (which doesn't mean that it doesn't exist, simply that I cannot find it). As far as I can tell Miro actually uses VLC, not just it's libraries....

I don't have to reboot, but if I do nothing but reboot the problem resolves itself. If you go into the power saving dialog after using VLC the initial settings are unchanged - but they simply no longer work, so the dialog isn't accurately reflecting the state of the system. But this screen/power sav...

Unfortunately, I haven't found a solution. I have just gotten into the habit of turning my monitor off if I'm going to be away from the computer for any length of time. As an addition to my previous description of the problem, if I reboot, the settings return to normal (ie. they reflect the settings...

After VLC has been run and has terminated, the screen saver and monitor power saving on my computer are disabled. Killing both those things makes sense whilst playing video (and it's what I have selected in the preferences/video), however, I would have thought that the original settings would have b...