----- Original Message ----- > On Fri, 2018-03-09 at 11:15 +0000, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > 20 minutes of idleness is not really 'a short time' - not like it > > will suspend while you are pausing to collect your thoughts in the > > middle of an email. > > Hi, > just out of interest, does the idleness detection recognize any (really > any) video player being in use and playing a movie? I rarely touch > keyboard or mouse when watching 2 hours long movie. Or when watching a > video in any (really any) web browser? It's up to the application to inhibit idleness. See gtk_application_inhibit(). The cross-desktop D-Bus specification exists since 2012, before the code was GNOME-specific and existed for many a year in gnome-screensaver: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/idle-inhibit-spec/latest/ Cheers _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx