VLC log entries dbus_screensaver debug: cannot find service org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver

[DAC324]

Hello all,

while trying to set up VLC for receiving multicast RTSP streams, I created a log file using the following command:

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vlc -vvv --fullscreen --no-osd --extraintf=http:logger --verbose=2 --file-logging --logfile=vlc-log.txt rtsp://user:password\@server-ip:554/Streaming/channels/101

Among a lot of others, there were the following lines:

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dbus_screensaver debug: cannot find service org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver dbus_screensaver debug: cannot find service org.freedesktop.PowerManagement.Inhibit dbus_screensaver debug: cannot find service org.mate.SessionManager dbus_screensaver debug: cannot find service org.gnome.SessionManager

These lines appear in the log files from many other people here in the forum as well but it looks like nobody is really taking care of them.
Plus, it appears as in particular, VLC is sending requests to dbus_screensaver for the org.freedesktop versions of these services - when I google these messages, VLC is mentioned in almost all search results.

My question: Is it indeed true that these lines in the logs can be safely ignored, or is there some recommendation on remediation?

On my system here, I seem to have the xfce counterparts for at least ScreenSaver and [SessionManager[/b]:

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org.xfce.ScreenSaver org.xfce.SessionManager

Thank you very much and kind regards,
DAC324

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

You can safely ignore those errors to the extent that you don't care about VLC not disabling the screen saver while playing a video.

[DAC324]

You can safely ignore those errors to the extent that you don't care about VLC not disabling the screen saver while playing a video.

Having the screensaver disabled while playing videos would indeed make sense.
How can I make VLC recognize that I have org.xfce.screensaver installed instead of org.freedesktop.screensaver?