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How to use: Launch steam-screensaver-fix-native or steam-screensaver-fix-runtime or use one of the 2 provided desktop files, which should have (Screensaver fix) in its name. Don't forget to update your autostart file if you start steam on login. Don't use Steam's "Run Steam when my computer starts" option.

@patlefort: Yeah, when I launch steam normally, that file does appear to get updated. I found this out because moondeckbuddy needs to hook into steam and couldn't find the pid

@HatsuneCthulhu: I can't reproduce, that file does get updated for me. When you launch without the fix, does it get updated? Is it only with the fix?

For some reason, this causes the SteamPID entry in ~/.steam/registry.vdf to not get updated. This causes issues with many applications that need to hook into steam

My bad, idk it required to launch a different instance, will see if that stop the spamming of the following on systemd's journalctl : Activating service name='org.gnome.ScreenSaver' requested by ':1.44' (uid=1000 pid=2064 comm="/home/myusername/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam -si") Successfully activated service 'org.gnome.ScreenSaver'"

Edit : Now my log are clean from the spam of steam, it did indeed fix the issue and would make diagnosing my sleeping issue more easier nowadays, thank.

How to use: Launch steam-screensaver-fix-native or steam-screensaver-fix-runtime or use one of the 2 provided desktop files, which should have (Screensaver fix) in its name. Don't forget to update your autostart file if you start steam on login. Don't use Steam's "Run Steam when my computer starts" option.

Can you tell me what message is being spammed?

I am unsure if the patch had applied, it's still spamming my journal log massively and it's really annoying when i am trying to diagnose unknown issue since i have been using awesomewm instead of gnome.

It actually allows the screensaver even if a game is launched, meaning that if you play a game with a controller instead of mouse/keyboard, your screen will turn off once the timeout is reached.

okay, so i've figured it out. this is from the wiki

By default, the Steam client totally disables screensaving when it is running, whether a game is launched or not.

A workaround to this issue is provided by steam-screensaver-fixAUR: run steam-screensaver-fix-native or steam-screensaver-fix-runtime.

This will allow your screen to turn off if Steam is running, but will keep inhibiting the screensaver if a game is launched.

See Issue 5607 at Valve's GitHub for the details.

how do i use this? just install and that's it?