The system is 64 bit 11.1, running kde3.5 and multimedia from packman. The two apps used for movies are vlc for native linux movie going and silverlight running in a windoze virtual box vm. perhaps this should also be sent to the vlc , kde3 and virtual box forums, but i thought i would give it a try here as well: when watching a movie with vlc the screen blanking is correctly turned off, however it does not resume after vlc is turned off. checking the running processes, sometimes i see the app suspending blanking on after vlc is turned off, sometimes i have seen about 4-5 duplicate processes, sometimes none. but something is obviously still left behind. The problem with silver light is of course a windoze problem, perhaps solvable by virtual box. If the screen blanking is on, the screen will go blank at precisely the wrong moment of the movie, from the linux control. the windoze power control is turned off. The current workaround is to leave blanking off and just turn the lcd off whenever i remember, however a better solution would be welcome. any ideas? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org