gamehub doesn't prevent monitor sleep

[nergdron]

Expected behavior

When I game, monitor idle sleep behaviour is disabled.

Actual behavior

When I game using gamehub, at least for things using wine64, my monitor goes into sleep mode after 5m (per my gnome prefs), even though I'm actively playing a game.

Steps to reproduce

Play a game under gamehub with wine-staging from the winehq ppa on ubuntu 20.04.

Version and environment

- GameHub
    Version: 0.16.0-86365ee-dev
    Branch:  dev
    Commit:  86365eee80eb3e5fc38dac63bb165703bbed8fe5
- Environment
    Distro:  Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
    DE:      ubuntu:GNOME
    GTK:     3.24.20

[Lucki]

IMHO this shouldn't be done by gamehub, anyway here's an external tool that does what you want and even can be automated to do it: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/517/caffeine/

[nergdron]

well I'm not sure, typically you want the application to automatically disable/re-enable sleep as appropriate. native games do this, steam does this, video players do this. it's something I expected gamehub to do. I definitely wouldn't expect people to install an external extension to manually toggle it every time they go to play a game.

[nergdron]

and that extension's codebase on github says in large type: "This extension is not maintained anymore".

[tkashkin]

Added for the next release.