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<p class="quotelead" style="padding: 0 0.5em; margin-bottom: -1em; font-size: 80%">Regarding the following, written by "Vladimir Dergachev" on 2022-07-21 at 17:28 Uhr -0400:</p>
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<p style="padding: 0 0.5em">If any of such programs were terminated before they could restore the regular behaviour, the screen won't lock.</p>
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<p style="padding: 0 0.5em">Nah, the problem is different. If I run <code style="white-space: pre-wrap">xscreensaver-command -lock</code>, then the screen locks, but every few minutes, the password screen will pop up, and time out, as if someone moves the mouse every few minutes.</p>
<p style="padding: 0 0.5em">As Carsten suggested, it seems that it's Firefox. I've quit the browser, and now <code style="white-space: pre-wrap">xset q</code> reports "Monitor is Off" (logged in over SSH), which it hasn't done in a long time.</p>
<p style="padding: 0 0.5em">This of course now begs the question: what is the browser doing to keep X awake by jiggling XScreensaver regularly, and worse yet: preventing DPMS shutoff. I am not watching videos, but I do havem plenty open tabs. Is any one of them able to keep my screen busy like this?</p>
<p style="padding: 0 0.5em">And how can I disable that? I generally keep the browser running, and don't want to have to shut it down every time I want to save energy and screen lifetime during idle periods.</p>
<p style="padding: 0 0.5em">A <a href="https://search.brave.com/search?q=firefox+dpms">web search</a> seems to only touch the opposite problem, i.e. people seeking to disable DPMS from Firefox.</p>
<p style="padding: 0 0.5em">Thanks!</p>
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