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notify-osd package

Totem inhibits screensaver when playing music

Bug #402962 reported by Ara Pulido on 2009-07-22

This bug affects 17 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
Totem	Expired	Medium	gnome-bugs #675847
notify-osd (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Medium	Matthew Paul Thomas
totem (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: notify-osd

Right now, notify OSD only shows confirmation and critical notifications when an application that inhibits the screensaver is open.

I think this is not the right solution. The screensaver takes all of the screen and notifications only a small part of it, therefore, it is not the same problem.

Let's take the example of Totem. Totem inhibits the screensaver as soon as anything is playing. But sometimes I use totem to play music, and keep it minimize. As soon as the music starts, I don't get non-critical notifications.

I guess totem does it because if you're watching a clip in non-fullscreen mode, you don't want the screensaver to appear, but you may still want to get your notifications.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jul 22 12:18:57 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
GtkTheme: Human
IconTheme: Human
MachineType: LENOVO 7664R5G
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: notify-osd 0.9.15-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=9ddb8687-1248-406f-b1fa-3812a368d945 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_NZ.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-3.19-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
libgl1-mesa-glx 7.5-1ubuntu1
libdrm2 2.4.11-1ubuntu1
xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.8.0-0ubuntu1
xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090629.f39cafc5-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: notify-osd
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-3-generic i686
WindowManager: compiz
dmi.bios.date: 08/15/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 7LETC4WW (2.24 )
dmi.board.name: 7664R5G
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr7LETC4WW(2.24):bd08/15/2008:svnLENOVO:pn7664R5G:pvrThinkPadT61:rvnLENOVO:rn7664R5G:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 7664R5G
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T61
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

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Ara Pulido (ara) wrote on 2009-07-22:

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) on 2009-08-13

Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low

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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote on 2009-10-08:

mpt, what's your view on this issue described by Ara?

Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
milestone:	none → ubuntu-9.10
importance:	Low → Medium

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2009-10-12:

"Totem inhibits the screensaver as soon as anything is playing. But sometimes I use totem to play music..."

If Totem inhibits the screensaver when it is playing music, that's a bug in Totem. It should inhibit the screensaver only when it's playing a movie (or when it's playing music but there is an upcoming movie in the Playlist).

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2009-10-12:

> If Totem inhibits the screensaver when it is playing music, that's a bug in Totem.

Rather an option which can be changed in the preferences dialog

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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote on 2009-10-13: Re: [Bug 402962] Re: Notify OSD should not rely on applications that inhibit the screensaver

Am Montag, den 12.10.2009, 16:26 +0000 schrieb Sebastien Bacher:
> > If Totem inhibits the screensaver when it is playing music, that's a
> bug in Totem.
>
> Rather an option which can be changed in the preferences dialog

Doesn't sound hard and like low hanging fruit. But the needed UI-change
is something that has some process attached to it, which we're not
likely to be able to shoe-horn in during the last two weeks before
final. This would also need a UIF-exception above all.

Best regards ...

Mirco

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Steven (steven3000) wrote on 2010-01-10: Re: Notify OSD should not rely on applications that inhibit the screensaver

It seems that if you check the option to display visual effects when playing audio, rithmbox will inhibit screensaver (or at least notifications) as if you were playing a video.

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2010-03-17

Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu):
milestone:	ubuntu-9.10 → none

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Jeremy Nickurak (nickurak) wrote on 2010-05-18:

I thought totem was only supposed to inhibit the screensaver on full-screen. Windowed mode implicitly means you want to see something other than the window... among which I'd count notifications.

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Stefano Palazzo (stefano-palazzo) wrote on 2010-12-05:

Here's how to replicate the problem:

* Start Totem, make sure "disable screen saver while playing [all]" is enabled
* Let it play something for as long as the idle time-out for the screen saver
* Try to notify-send

This may also be a bug in Totem - as Jeremy Nickurak suggests.

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Benedict Etzel (benedict-etzel) wrote on 2011-06-02:

This can still be reproduced in the current 11.04 simply by using caffeine and setting it to "Prevent screensaver". So this indeed seems to be a problem on the notify-osd-side rather than an application error.

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Antonio Bulgheroni (antonio-bulgheroni) wrote on 2011-06-25:

#10

Same problem here. I'm running Totem in a reduced window. The screensaver is disabled but it is actually starting up since it is not in full screen. But no notification at all.

Is this misbehavior going to be fixed or not?

thanks,

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2011-10-06:

#11

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) on 2011-10-06

Changed in totem (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2012-01-09:

#13

After considering this further, I don't see what Notify OSD could reasonably change here.

The relative amount of screen taken up by screensavers and notifications is not relevant. What is relevant is that we don't want non-urgent notification bubbles appearing in front of videos or other things that you should not be interrupted from. That is exactly the same reason as applications inhibit the screensaver. Therefore, we listen for the same signal.

Unfortunately, Totem inhibits the screensaver by default when music is playing. This does not seem to make sense. Jeremy Nickurak has it right: the screensaver should inhibit only when Totem is playing a full-screen video -- not a windowed video, and certainly not music. So it is Totem that needs fixing here, not Notify OSD.

Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Incomplete

Thomas Ward (teward) on 2012-05-10

summary:

- Notify OSD should not rely on applications that inhibit the screensaver
+ Totem inhibits screensaver when playing music

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote on 2012-05-10:

#14

Setting status/importance per Resistance on freenode

Changed in totem (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

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Thomas Ward (teward) wrote on 2012-05-10:

#15

Bug filed upstream. Upstream bug linked to this bug.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2012-05-10

Changed in totem:
importance:	Unknown → Medium
status:	Unknown → New

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2012-05-11

Changed in totem:
status:	New → Expired

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) on 2012-09-26

Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → Invalid

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