Steam Client Inhibits Screensaver

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#6839 · opened 2020-01-21 by adnieman · updated 2020-01-21 · 1 comments · github

Aadnieman 2020-01-21 github

Your system information

Steam client version (build number or date): Jan 18 2020, at 03:34:03
Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Ubuntu 18.04.3 XFCE 4.12.4
Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes/No] No
Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes/No] Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Steam is sending DBus requests to inhibit power management. Only happens when Steam Client is running.

Here is the DBus information:
method call time=1579622873.373382 sender=:1.917 -> destination=org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver serial=2 path=/org/freedesktop/ScreenSaver; interface=org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver; member=Inhibit

Steps for reproducing this issue:

run 'dbus-monitor --session'
Launch Steam Client

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2020-01-21 github

Hello @adnieman, this issue is already being tracked at #5607. Closing as a duplicate.

Nothing extracted yet.