Prevent display turning off when playing media
from shadowintheday@beehaw.org to linux@lemmy.ml on 26 Nov 2023 13:24
https://beehaw.org/post/9867913

It’s possible to inhibit the display turn off in kde using ``kde-inhibit --power --screenSaver ``` However, I want to inhibit the display turning off only when playing media (either by spotify or a browser), and let it sleep as usual when not playing media.

How could I achieve this? Is there a lower level solution that doesn’t envolve the DE’s setting?

#linux

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rotopenguin@infosec.pub on 26 Nov 2023 18:45 next collapse

That thing usually goes by the name “wake lock”. I can’t imagine why it’s not doing the right thing by default.

lemmyvore@feddit.nl on 26 Nov 2023 22:20 next collapse

Try putting the browser on fullscreen, see if that keeps the screen alive while playing.

JC1@lemmy.ca on 26 Nov 2023 22:33 next collapse

I use qtile on X11 and hyprland on Wayland. There is an option on hyprland for exactly that (idleinhibit window rule), but didn’t find a good solution on qtile yet. Anyway I have issues with qtile for other things too (because of X11 mainly).

[deleted] on 26 Nov 2023 23:50 collapse

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