mpv_inhibit_gnome

This mpv plugin prevents screen blanking in GNOME while playing media.

This is needed because neither mpv supports GNOME's inhibition protocol, nor GNOME supports the standard inhibition protocol (yet).

Installing

You can find the latest release here. Download mpv_inhibit_gnome.so and put it in your mpv scripts directory (by default it's ~/.config/mpv/scripts).

Manually building and installing

To build, the libdbus-1 library is needed (Arch: dbus, Fedora: dbus-devel, Ubuntu: libdbus-1-dev), as well as the header files for mpv (Arch: mpv, Fedora: mpv-libs-devel, Ubuntu: libmpv-dev).

To build run:

make

This will generate the plugin in lib/mpv_inhibit_gnome.so.

To install in the default per-user location ~/.config/mpv/scripts either copy it there or run:

make install

To install in the default system-wide location /usr/share/mpv/scripts run:

sudo make sys-install

Flatpak support

This plugin has been integrated into the Flatpak release of mpv, so you should already be good to go.

If this plugin was manually installed before the integration, uninstall it to avoid conflicts by deleting ~/.var/app/io.mpv.Mpv/config/mpv/scripts/mpv_inhibit_gnome.so.