When playing a video in a web browser the screen locks

Question

When playing a video in a web browser the screen locks

hramrach opened this issue 4 months ago · 6 comments

This is not seen under X11

Answer 1 · 2024-09-11T07:24:12.000Z

This is #104, still not resolved

Answer 2 · 2024-09-11T08:10:35.000Z

swayidle does not determine when something is idle, it only reacts to sway saying that the system has been idle for longer than the requested idle timeout.

If the screen locks while playing a video, it is most likely a case of the client (the browser) not using Wayland idle inhibition protocol correctly so that sway does not know to not trigger idle events.

Answer 3 · 2024-09-11T08:23:33.000Z

(While I closed the issue as it is not a swayidle problem, feel free to be more specific about which browser and version.)

Answer 4 · 2024-09-11T09:24:18.000Z

Chromium, any version, as described in #104

Answer 5 · 2024-09-11T11:44:49.000Z

Works fine with chromium here. The browser needs to be run in Wayland mode though: --ozone-platform=wayland --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform. You can usually put that in a ~/.config/chromium-flags.conf` or something, depending on the wrapper script provided by your distro.

Answer 6 · 2024-09-11T19:04:33.000Z

The current option is --ozone-platform-hint=auto, with that it seems to work, thanks.