Linux on ChromeOS/ChromeOS Flex

[Anindya Sundar Bhar]

So I am using the brave browser as my secondary browser which I installed via Linux, the problem is that when I am watching a long YouTube video, the screen gets locked and I have to enter my pin to unlock the screen everytime. Why does it happen even when the screen is in use?? Is there any fix? 

[Keith I Myers]

That would the intended behavior as applications/processes running in a container have no ability to prevent the host machine from locking. There is no real way around this.

On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM Anindya Sundar Bhar <andyb...@gmail.com> wrote:

So I am using the brave browser as my secondary browser which I installed via Linux, the problem is that when I am watching a long YouTube video, the screen gets locked and I have to enter my pin to unlock the screen everytime. Why does it happen even when the screen is in use?? Is there any fix? 

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[Anindya Sundar Bhar]

Understood. But this is annoying to be honest. LIke I am watching a long video and the screen gets locked every 5 minutes or so. 

[dragon788]

You can use an extension like Keep Awake on the ChromeOS side to keep the screen from locking/sleeping.

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