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'