[PLUG] VLC 3.0

elcaseti elcaseti at gmail.com
Thu May 10 11:45:31 UTC 2018


Jason,  That is useful info.  I will be trying Kubuntu 18.04 to see if it's
up to the task of replacing Mint KDE for myself, friends, & family.  Mint
has abandoned KDE Plasma, unfortunately.

On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 10:42 PM, Jason Barnett <jason.barnett71 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I can vouch for Kubuntu 18.04 (upgraded from 17.10, Xorg) that the included
> VLC 3.0.1 does NOT have any issues with the screensaver.
> Not sure if this information is of any use to you, but now you know.
>
> On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 7:37 PM Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > While I might not know what is Compiz, I certainly can recognize familiar
> > smell of major trouble coming - when I hear about upgrading U-buntu for
> the
> > last 12 releases AND not practicing regular clean installs.
> >
> > Just a word of caution,
> > T
> >
> > On Wed, May 9, 2018, 6:38 PM John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
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