Problems with the Disable Screen Shield Extension on GNOME 3.18/Fedora 23

[Kartik Subbarao <subbarao computer org>]

A few months ago, the patch from Matthijs (see below) worked great for 
me on GNOME 3.16/Fedora 3.22. However, a few months after that, and also 
recently when I upgraded to Fedora 23/GNOME 3.18, the Disable Screen 
Shield extension stops working in some cases.

I have org.gnome.desktop.session set to 3600. If there have been just a 
few hours of inactivity, the extension works as expected (moving the 
mouse restores the desktop from monitor-sleep mode, and I don't get the 
curtain). But when I leave my computer overnight and return the next 
morning, moving the mouse (or hitting a non-operative key like Shift) 
doesn't get rid of the curtain. I have to hit the Escape key to get rid 
of the curtain, which is not desirable.

I also tried the new version of the Disable Screen Shield extension that 
lgpasquale recently updated, but that doesn't seem to work at all for me 
-- even after just an hour of inactivity, moving the mouse doesn't get 
rid of the curtain.

Any suggestions for a better fix or even how to troubleshoot this in 
more detail would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

    -Kartik

On 08/25/2015 09:08 AM, Kartik Subbarao wrote:
> On 08/22/2015 04:46 PM, Matthijs Kooijman wrote:
> > Hi Kartik
> > > I'm trying to get the Disable Screen Shield extension to work on 
> > > GNOME 3.16
> > > / Fedora 22. This used to be a simple matter of updating the version 
> > > number
> > > in metadata.json, but it doesn't work now:
> > >
> > > https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/672/disable-screen-shield/
> > I just had a look at my local copy and it turns out I had some local
> > changes, which I apparently also submitted on github. The changes are
> > supposed to make the code a bit more robust, so perhaps they can help to
> > run on 3.16 (I'm still at 3.14). Anyway, the patch is here:
> >
> > https://github.com/lgpasquale/gnome-shell-extension-disable-screenshield/issues/2 
>
> Thanks very much Matthijs, this worked for me!
>
>     -Kartik