[PLUG] VLC 3.0

[John Jason Jordan]

On Thu, 10 May 2018 00:20:13 +0000
Tim Garton <garton.tim at gmail.com> dijo:

>What did you dist upgrade from? If it was Ubuntu 17.10 you are probably
>running Wayland, which is most likely the problem. They reverted back
>to Xorg with 18.04, but if you upgraded from 17.10 it may have carried
>Wayland as the default from that. Wayland breaks many things, not the
>least of which is the screensaver API.

What you said is possible.

I have three computers:
1.	desktop built 2 mos ago, started with Xubuntu 17.10 and just
	upgraded to 18.04. 
2.	Lenovo T61 laptop, had 12.04 when it was retired; recently
	revived and dist-upgraded to 14.04 > 16.04 > 18.04
3.	System76 laptop, still running Xubuntu 14.04.5. Has VLC 2.2.5
	which inhibits the screensaver as it should.

Both 1 and 2 have VLC 3.0.1 (from the dist-upgrades), which fails to
inhibit the screensaver. 

I wonder what pieces of Wayland are still on 1 and 2, and what kind of
exorcism is needed to get rid of them.

While VLC 3.0.1 is the current version in the 18.04 repositories,
version 3.0.2 has been released. I've looked everywhere for a change-log
to see if it addresses this issue, but can't find one.