Disabling Chromium XFCE Power Management Inhibition For a long time I've been having problems with my Screen Saver not working properly, now it seems it tells me the problem in the XFCE4 Panel's Power Manager Plugin ...--prophetes.ai

Disabling Chromium XFCE Power Management Inhibition For a long time I've been having problems with my Screen Saver not working properly, now it seems it tells me the problem in the XFCE4 Panel's Power Manager Plugin ![xfce power manager plugin]( Captain reads > `/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser` is currently inhibiting power management It seems specifically that a backgrounded tab of Reuters is doing it * < How do I disable this most annoying "feature" of chromium-browser When I run `xfce4-power-manager --no-daemon --debug`, I get in the output, > TRACE[xfpm-inhibit.c:405] xfpm_inhibit_inhibit(): Inhibit send application name=/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser reason=WebRTC has active PeerConnections sender=:1.628 External links * Reddit post of someone having the same problem with chrome using dbus to send inhibit message * Google Product Forum post on this problem

This is a verified bug without a patch yet, Launchpad Bug 1600622

One solution that is far from ideal is to block all advertisements with uBlock Origin. Chrome can still inhibit the screensaver, but in this case it seems that whatever is responsible isn't getting through.

Specifically the problem seems to be with **GoogleTagServices.com** which pulls in this script. If that's blocked by uBlock Origin, you're good and you won't have Power Management Inhibition. If that's not blocked, you'll have problems.