Xscreensaver blank screen on video

Running on Ubuntu 14.04, I have installed Caffeine which seems to disable Xscreensaver while I am watching video steaming on fullscreen, but the screen still goes blank after the alotted 10 minutes when Xscreensaver would normally activate.

As I understand it, Caffeine should enable me to watch videos on fullscreen without interference, but this does not happen.

Can anybody assist me to avoid this irritation?

I do not have Caffeine installed, but some media players have a "prevent screensaver" setting somewhere in the preferences. You might try a different video player for testing purposes. Totem also seems to play video without interruption.

On my Mageia machine, I find that when VLC plays a video, xscreensaver does not interfere, but when the Dragon Player (I think that's the one--I'm miles away from my Mageia box) is playing, it is routinely interrupted by the screensaver.

Thanks for the suggestions Frankbell. I subsequently found that my Caffeine was deactivated, after re-activating it, the problem seems to be solved.

Glad it's working. Thanks for the update.

Thanks frankbell. Going a bit off topic, the xscreensaver display modes page confuses me in that the button that says "Blank after...minutes" should actually, to my mind, read "Activate after...minutes."

I have commented about this in the past but nobody seems to agree/mind/react.

Perhaps you should suggest this to the creator of Xscreensaver, though, after all this time of successful usage of the program, I think most folks are used to how it behaves. Frankly, I've had the same question, but I just accepted the program and how it worked.

I think by "blank," what is meant is "blank screen," which is followed implicity by "start screensaver." This program has been around a long time; display memory is much cheaper now than it was when it was first created.

His website is here: http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/

Thanks frankbell, I have sent him a mail.