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smartding

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Registered: 2021-02-21

Posts: 4

chrome pauses playing videos when I switch to another workspace/tag

I'm using the google-chrome-beta aur (version 89) and the dwm tiling window manager.

When I switch to another tag/workspace in dwm, chrome in the previews tag/workspace will pause YouTube video playback after a few seconds. When I switch back to the chrome tag/workspace, chrome will resume playback.

Chrome doesn't have this auto-pause/resume "feature" when I'm using Gentoo.  Can I turn this off? I do want to listen to some video when I'm working on some other tag/workspaces.