topic Re: Pause suspend while playing music (enhancement/bug) in Desktop (Linux)

Pause suspend while playing music (enhancement/bug)

BJoe — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 11:13:01 GMT

This was tested on Fedora34/Gnome but could be applicable elsewhere in Linux. I'd like to request pausing suspend while Spotify is actively playing music. Currently Gnome doesn't know that Spotify is active because Spotify doesn't issue Inhibit() request according to Gnome documentation here: https://wiki.gnome.org/Attic/GnomePowerManager/FAQ#How_do_I_make_my_application_stop_the_computer_auto-suspending.3F

which leads to computer going to sleep.

It would be great if Spotify could issue those requests because the only other options are to wrap Spotify into some sort of an anti-suspend script or disabling suspend entirely. Both not good.

Re: Pause suspend while playing music (enhancement/bug)

sebasnolascop — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 02:07:03 GMT

I try the same in Fedora 36, any solution yet...

Re: Pause suspend while playing music (enhancement/bug)

manueldeljesus — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 07:43:46 GMT

I take a seat here to see if there is some evolution.

Re: Pause suspend while playing music (enhancement/bug)

InsaneLampshade — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 10:47:26 GMT

This is still not fixed.

Spotify version 1.2.37.701.ge66eb7bc (.deb package version)
Ubuntu 24.04

Re: Pause suspend while playing music (enhancement/bug)

ENTPRESTIGIOUS — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 20:38:15 GMT

I have the same problem

Re: Pause suspend while playing music (enhancement/bug)

gerrebord — Wed, 07 May 2025 23:35:09 GMT

Yup, same issue here. Using Flatpak version on Fedora

Re: Pause suspend while playing music (enhancement/bug)

oakleigh1-au — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 05:53:14 GMT

I also would like to see this issue resolved. It hinders my use of Spotify.

Spotify version 1.2.60.564.gcc6305cb

Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS

Re: Pause suspend while playing music (enhancement/bug)

Dukeofscience — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:57:37 GMT

Same issue here. It would be amazing if that would be fixed.
Fedora 43 with KDE Plasma 6.6.3