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when vlc is paused or finished playing it prevents display and computer from going into sleep mode.

I am going to try this http://sourceforge.net/projects/sleepsharp/ . but it seems like this would be easy enough to fix...

what kind of loser falls asleep in front of the computer enough for this to be an issue ? LOL

so sleepsharp works if I watch a full screen video and fall asleep.

I often leave a vlc window open, it does not fix that part. there has to be a way to make it so at least the screen sleeps.