Steam client inhibits the screensaver and sleep
I have the same problem running KDE (Plasma Desktop 5) on Gentoo Linux. Power management is suppressed and plasma shows: "My SDL application is currently suppressing power management: Playing a game". This keeps the desktop from locking and my displays do not go into power saving mode. Power management resumes when I quit Steam.
Can confirm here with Deepin. Even more problematic is that, atleast for me, even after closing Steam monitor turning off still doesnt work.
Very nasty problem.
Running Xubuntu 18.04 with XFCE. Since the new beta I can confirm that my desktop has not been sleeping as it did prior. I thought something was strange.
Running Linux Mint 19 and can confirm the same issue. Reverting back to the stable version of steam makes the desktop sleep again.
same issue on opensuse tumbleweed with gnome 3.28.2 and steam beta, just tested it with the non beta client and its working
This issue is not observed anymore with steam client version 1531272277 and Fedora 29 (Rawhide).
Can confirm, thanks for the fix.
I am observing this behaviour with the latest steam client version.
I am also observing the same behavior in the latest Steam client beta version as of Dec 20, 2019
I'm seeing this on Manjaro. The Steam client claims to be up to date. The problem disappears when I close the client window, but Steam is still running. Following the suggestion from https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/309696/how-do-i-find-out-which-application-is-disabling-sleep, while the window is open I get:
$ dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.PowerManagement /org/freedesktop/PowerManagement/Inhibit org.freedesktop.PowerManagement.Inhibit.GetInhibitors
method return time=1592967428.638786 sender=:1.32 -> destination=:1.151 serial=88 reply_serial=2
array [
string "./steamwebhelper"
string "./steamwebhelper"
]
@nmiell please reopen. xset dpms force off turns the screen off, then flashes back on when steam is open, even if only running in the notification area. The only mitigation I found is to exit steam.
Hello @winny-, this issue is currently being tracked at #5607. Prodding the closed issue report isn't beneficial.
@kisak-valve thank you for the explicit "Closed as duplicate notification". It's clear multiple posters did not realize this is a duplicate.
In this case it's not a duplicate. There was a month between this issue being resolved and that similar issue showing up.
I just noticed the same issue. Very annoying.
Also the window title is incorrect, it's not really "My SDL application".
Same Issue here, it looks like that's still not fixed. I'm using Manjaro 20.0.3 "Lysia" with the KDE-Desktop.
I'm not using the Steam-Beta and my build date is 31th July 2020 at 09:12:33
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SDL_Ex1 2018-06
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Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:
The screensaver does not start while the Steam client is running.
When the Steam client is started, a GNOME session idle inhibitor is created with an app ID of "My SDL application". This inhibitor vanishes immediately when I quit the Steam client.
Looking at the SDL source, any use of SDL Video automatically blocks the screensaver and you have to explicitly allow the screensaver by calling SDL_EnableScreensaver().
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