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themusicalduck

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Registered: 2011-07-04

Posts: 123

Automatic screen locking blocked by an application - Gnome.

I've noticed sometimes when leaving my PC for a few mins, the screen won't have automatically locked itself. There is a notification that says something like "Lock was blocked by an application". I'm using Gnome 3.22.2 and the AMD open source graphics drivers. Arch is fully up to date.

I haven't been able to figure out any correlation between what is runing and the screen not locking. Usually I'm just running Firefox, gnome-terminal and keypass.

systemd-inhibit says:

     Who: theo (UID 1000/theo, PID 630/gnome-settings-)
    What: sleep
     Why: GNOME needs to lock the screen
    Mode: delay

     Who: Telepathy (UID 1000/theo, PID 595/mission-control)
    What: shutdown:sleep
     Why: Disconnecting IM accounts before suspend/shutdown...
    Mode: delay

     Who: GNOME Shell (UID 1000/theo, PID 565/gnome-shell)
    What: sleep
     Why: GNOME needs to lock the screen
    Mode: delay

     Who: gdm (UID 120/gdm, PID 456/gnome-settings-)
    What: sleep
     Why: GNOME needs to lock the screen
    Mode: delay

     Who: theo (UID 1000/theo, PID 630/gnome-settings-)
    What: handle-power-key:handle-suspend-key:handle-hibernate-key
     Why: GNOME handling keypresses
    Mode: block

     Who: gdm (UID 120/gdm, PID 456/gnome-settings-)
    What: handle-power-key:handle-suspend-key:handle-hibernate-key
     Why: GNOME handling keypresses
    Mode: block

6 inhibitors listed.

but I'm not sure what to make of this output.

I don't have any videos or games open when it happens, even in browser tabs.

Any ideas on how to figure out what's preventing screen lock?