Been using HTPC from Flatpak, and it doesn’t inhibit the screen from blanking. I am using Fedora 36 with GNOME. I manually triggered org.freedesktop.Screensaver’s inhibit function, and it works as expected. I verified that applications can inhibit the Screen Blank / sleep by running a video in SMPl…

HTPC doesn't inhibit screensaver / blanking on Linux

Mystic-Mirage July 22, 2022, 8:52pm 5

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