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

[Kartik Subbarao <subbarao computer org>]

Does anyone have any thoughts/suggestions on this? What would be a good 
way to troubleshoot this in more detail?

Thanks,

    -Kartik

On 02/15/2016 04:19 PM, Kartik Subbarao wrote:
> 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