Monitor doesn't turn off while playing audio files

[artbio]

I enabled the "Inhibit the power management daemon during playback" option. However this completely inhibits the monitor for being turned off even while playing music files. This is to be expected while playing videos. But I would like the monitor to turn off while playing audio files. And without the need to change the preferences before playing audio or video files. This only affects Linux and this behaviour isn't observed on Windows. Yes I use VLC on both operating systems. Is this a bug? Or is it intended to work like I described under Linux?

Thanks in advance!

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Known bug. Patch welcome.

[artbio]

Power management daemon inhibition isn't working at all with vlc 2.1.0-rc1 Even for videos. I am using vdpau. However I don't know if that makes a difference! I will try again with vaapi and no hardware acceleration just to be sure.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

It mostly depends on the desktop environment, not the output method.

[artbio]

I am using Unity. Should I write this information on the bug report?

I should point out that this works in previous VLC versions.

Edit: ticket here -> https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/9310