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Comment 6 for bug 1697373

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote : Re: Do not dim/lock the screen when a video is playing

Sorry, that's the opposite of your problem :)

Back on topic with this bug...

I don't know what API(s) are being used by the browser to disable video playback, but there are only a few probable options:

  (a) The API is different between telling Unity7 and Gnome Shell to not blank, and Chrome doesn't support the latter; or
  (b) The API is different between telling Unity7 and Gnome Shell to not blank, and Chrome does support both but gnome-shell is ignoring it; or
  (c) The API is the same for both Unity7 and Gnome Shell, and gnome-shell is ignoring it.

So yeah, in both (b) and (c) we would need a gnome-shell task. But there are many possible reasons as to why this is broken. Needs more research.