Doesn't actually inhibit the screensaver in 3.6

[Nevon]

As the title implies, the screensaver isn't actually inhibited when Caffeine is active. Perhaps take a look at how lavi741 does it: https://github.com/lavi741/gnome-shell-extension-inhibit-suspend

[eonpatapon]

I'm using the same method as this extension so if it works with lavi's extension I guess it should work with mine

[Nevon]

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that it works with that extension. I haven't tested it, I just figured it might be worth looking at how other people have solved the problem.

[eonpatapon]

Ok, but actually it works for me on 3.4 or 3.6

[Nevon]

That's incredibly strange. I'm on 3.6, activated Caffeine, started up a full screen YouTube video and ten minutes later, the screensaver came on.

Is there any kind of debugging I can do to help?

[eonpatapon]

Enable caffeine, then run:

eon@potiron ~> gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.SessionManager --object-path /org/gnome/SessionManager --method org.gnome.SessionManager.GetInhibitors([objectpath '/org/gnome/SessionManager/Inhibitor9'],)

Get the inhibitor dbus path (here it is: /org/gnome/SessionManager/Inhibitor9) then run:

gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.SessionManager --object-path /org/gnome/SessionManager/Inhibitor9 --method org.gnome.SessionManager.Inhibitor.GetReason
('Inhibit by Caffeine',)

If that works for you then the gnome-shell you are using might have a bug and ignore the inhibit dbus interface for some reason.

[Nevon]

Yup. It says it's inhibited by Caffeine.

I'm specifically using Gnome-shell version 3.6.1 (the one that's in the Ubuntu 12.10 repos).

[vrubezhny]

It doesn't work for me too. Same Ubuntu 12.10/Gnome-Shell 3.6.1. But there is one more thing: Even if you configure System Settings->Brightness and Lock: to not to dim the screen and never turn the screen off, the screen still is turned off after some period of user inactivity.
So, it seems to be a problem of Gnome.

Anyway, thanks to the author for great extension. It works good for me in Ubuntu 12.04/Gnome-session 3.4.2.1

[Nevon]

You may want to subscribe to the bug I created in Gnome's bugtracker. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687381

[eonpatapon]

You should report this @ the Ubuntu bugtracker, it's not a Gnome bug

[eonpatapon]

Closing this since this is not related to the extension itself

[eonpatapon]

Seems it was a gnome bug, if you have gnome-settings-daemon 3.6.2 it should work