Re: VLC and screen saver

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On Sat, 2020-05-16 at 05:54 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 2020-05-15 20:02, Robin Lee wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I'm on Fedora 32, but this problem I have had for a while.
> > 
> > The thing is that sometimes when I close vlc after I've watched
> > some
> > video it doesn't terminate cleanly. That is there is still a vlc
> > process running in the background and it prevents the screen saver
> > from
> > blanking the screen. So sometimes when I wake up or come home after
> > being out I notice that the screen has been on all the time. Not so
> > good. I have to go to system monitor and find the vlc process and
> > kill
> > it, then the screen saver can again do its thing. 
> > 
> > Can anything be done about it, except always checking manually that
> > vlc
> > has terminated completely?
> > 
> > 
> 
> What desktop are you running and how are you starting vlc?

Gnome. The most frequent (I think) way I start VLC is from Files and
right-click to get to 'Open with other application'
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