How do you keep screen from timing out in VLC

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(Answer to Original Post:  use a screen-saver that VLC works with, and power settings that keep the display on.  VLC's screensaver-suppression settings don't work with all screensavers, just expected one(s).)

Actually, screen-savers were invented because they are necessary for (vintage?) CRT monitors; there's an LCD-scrub version for certain LCD monitors, LED monitors generally don't need one at all ... and some of them add enough aesthetic ambience to be justified without "need".

I agree that a blank-screen screen-saver is an unwise selection for a live or pre-install default; it's likely simply politically least controversial.

Cross-connecting related settings menu-entries would definitely be wiser than the usual obfuscation-by-burial.