Re: VLC and screen saver
On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 18:20 +0800, Ian Chapman wrote:
Hi,
> 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?
For what it's worth I see this exact same issue, on F31 and F32. Not
sure exactly when it started but I see it even when I start vlc from
the
command line. I "close" the vlc window but often still have to CTRL-C
on
the terminal.
Thanks for letting me know I'm not the only one.
Also been launching VLC from a terminal lately and sometimes it also
doesn't terminate cleanly that way. I close the VLC window, it
disappears from system panel, but in the terminal window the prompt is
not returned. Ctrl-c returns the prompt and VLC doesn't show up anymore
in system monitor.