I ignored this issue until I installed this radio extension:
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/836/internet-radio/
Every time I lock the computer screen with “window + L” combination keys or when it locks automatically after 5 minutes of inactivity the radio station stops playing so I assume every single extension installed also gets disabled after this.
Is this a normal behavior from Gnome Shell or is it a bug nobody has reported yet?
I ran into this issue too. Apparently this behavior is by design.
Shell shuts down extensions whenever the lock screen activates, by design. Annoying, annoying design.
There isn’t any good way to prevent it. Shell shuts down extensions whenever the lock screen activates, by design. Annoying, annoying design.
My suggestion:
sudo dnf install libappindicator libappindicator-gtk3
That’ll install support for the AppIndicator system developed by Canonical for Ubuntu’s Unity desktop, which works far better than the broken shards of systray support left in Gnome Shell. In my experience most applications that support a tray icon will use AppIndicator if the library …
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That is awful, I wonder why they designed the shell to behave that way.
Why not ask them?
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Actually: this is a duplicate of the other post, so I’m going to close it.