Multimedia video on netbook

[Joel Rees]

On Jun 23, 2010, at 4:43 AM, JD wrote:

>
>
> On 06/22/2010 12:24 PM, jack craig was caught red-handed while  
> writing::
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I just loaded VLC on my netbook and was able to view my recent  
>> manta ray
>> night diving video.
>>
>> However, given its normal power saving procedure, it dims the screen
>> shortly after the video starts.
>>
>> Is there any prevailing wisdom how to handle this feature during a  
>> video
>> display?
>>
>> I am assuming watching movies has the same issue...
>>
>> tia, jackc...
>>
>>
>
> System -> Preferences -> Screensaver
>
> and take it from there.
>
> Note: You might have 2 screensaver entries in the drop down menu.
> On my F13, the first screensaver menu entry runs the
> xscreensaver-demo
> which I am unable to kill, even via sudo, even with signal 9.
> I hope some fedoral developer sees this :)

Is it worth filing a bug?

> So, select the second screensaver entry and that will bring up a
> gui for you to set what to do when idle.
> You can uncheck the box and it will not blank the screen.
>
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