VLC inhibits the screensaver regardless (which is _not_ power management) as well as DPMS as it makes no sense to show a video if the screen is off. This is expected behaviour.
Make sure you did not manually select the DBus Inhibit plugin in the interfaces preferences. ** Changed in: vlc (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- VLC Inhibits power management daemon when option UNCHECKED https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/562807 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs