I'm tired, I want to do go bed. I click "sleep" on gnome shell, nothing happens.
Swearwords.
I want to go to bed. I might have want to put my laptop in a bag and run to catch a train. I hate when this happens.
systemd-inhibit --list --mode=block doesn't help much:
$ systemd-inhibit --list --mode=block
WHO UID USER PID COMM WHAT WHY MODE
enrico 1000 enrico 3042 gsd-power handle-lid-switch External monitor attached… block
enrico 1000 enrico 3037 gsd-media-keys handle-power-key:handle-suspend-key:handle-hibernate-key GNOME handling keypresses block
enrico 1000 enrico 2878 gnome-session-b sleep user session inhibited block
After much googling I found out about gnome-session-inhibit:
$ gnome-session-inhibit --list
mutter: idle-inhibit (idle)
/usr/lib/chromium/chromium: Playing audio (suspend)
Found the right tab in chromium, paused playing, sleep works again.
My sleep was a good half an hour overdue, and all I got for it was to write this blog post.
Of course Gnome could have shown me its inhibitor list instead of doing nothing, since it has that information, but it didn't.
What I really would expect is that if I intentionally click a suspend button, audio and video playing wouldn't inhibit the suspend. Maybe in a future version of Gnome?