Re: Something is keeping my X awake
I don't frequent Youtube, and I don't generally see ads. I might have Reddit open, so that could be it. Not exactly happy about this, and I will take it over to Mozilla and see what they say. At least this should be configurable. -- @martinkrafft | https://matrix.to/#/#madduck:madduck.net sex an und für sich ist reine selbstbefriedigung. spamtraps: madduck.bo...@madduck.net
Re: Something is keeping my X awake
Thanks, Carsten, for your work, and the elaborate explanation. I can somewhat understand inhibiting the screensaver when there's a video playing in the foreground, but certainly not for background activity. But this is an issue to take up with the Mozilla dudes. I don't believe that there should be any influence by the browser on a machine with a screensaver that's currently locking. The inhibitor just causes the password dialog to pop up all the time, and prevents screen blanking, when in fact there is nothing to be seen anyway, and it's thus pointless. So while the inhibitor should inhibit the screensaver from activating on idle, if the screensave has been activated otherwise, then the inhibitor's job is over and it should just rest. Best, -- @martinkrafft | https://matrix.to/#/#madduck:madduck.net "you don't sew with a fork, so I see no reason to eat with knitting needles." -- miss piggy, on eating chinese food spamtraps: madduck.bo...@madduck.net
Re: Something is keeping my X awake
On Sat, 23 Jul 2022, martin f krafft wrote: Regarding the following, written by "Vladimir Dergachev" on 2022-07-21 at 17:28 Uhr -0400: As Carsten suggested, it seems that it's Firefox. I've quit the browser, and now xset q reports "Monitor is Off" (logged in over SSH), which it hasn't done in a long time. This of course now begs the question: what is the browser doing to keep X awake by jiggling XScreensaver regularly, and worse yet: preventing DPMS shutoff. I am not watching videos, but I do havem plenty open tabs. Is any one of them able to keep my screen busy like this? A youtube tab will do it. Make sure no videos are playing or paused. And how can I disable that? I generally keep the browser running, and don't want to have to shut it down every time I want to save energy and screen lifetime during idle periods. Same here. I have a few hundred browser windows with who knows how many tabs and it works. So it is not Firefox per se. Maybe you have some weird site loaded that does this to get ads displayed ? Try closing tabs until the behaviour disappears. best Vladimir Dergachev
