Muting doesn't work with blank screen

[goat865]

Title says it all, if the screen goes blank the extension doesn't mute Spotify.

Fedora 40, GNOME 46 (Wayland)

[bmaupin]

My understanding is this is default Gnome behaviour. When the screen blanks, by default it locks, and Gnome disables extensions when the screen is locked, and re-enables them when the screen is unlocked. I don't know enough about this to know if there's a way to modify the extension to prevent this without a significant rearchitecture or some kind of additional background process.

You could maybe work around it by not locking the screen when it blanks. I haven't tested this, but if you go into Gnome settings > Privacy & Secutiry > Screen Lock you could try disabling Automatic Screen Lock and see if that does the trick.

Alternatively the extension could probably add a new preference to not reset the volume when the extension disabled, which might not be too tricky to do. It gets a little bit messy because then the volume could get stuck at a low level if, for example, the computer is rebooted during an ad. I ran into similar issues if Spotify was closed when an ad was playing but I was able to get those sorted out: #27