On 2024-09-07 09:19:01 Carlos E. R. wrote:
Hi,
I have been observing for weeks that the screensaver + sleep display feature in XFCE was not triggering. And I just noticed that after I closed all firefox windows, it triggers again.
My hypothesis is that firefox, which has several opened tabs with youtube windows, is blocking the screensaver. Notice that they are videos not running currently: they are all finished or paused in mid play for continuing at another time. Yet they seem to inhibit the screensaver.
(system is as per signature)
I suppose that the DE has access to information about the type of application running in a window/tab such that it knows that it involves multimedia, but that there is no information available about what the multimedia application in a window/tab is actually doing (not started, running, paused, stopped), so its mere presence triggers suppression of screensaver + sleep. I imagine that adding that additional status to each individual multimedia application would be difficult at best. Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.5 - x86_64