Mac OS Ventura 13.5, m1 Mac.

Background: if a video player like free tube is active, the screensaver is prevented from running.

If you force the computer to sleep anyway the screen goes off - so far so good.

If the lock screen comes up, and a video player like free tube is active, the screensaver will not activate on the lock screen, and the screen will not turn off for power saving. So the computer would just sit there with the lock screen up forever. So if the computer gets awake on lan packet, or the mouse jiggles, or anything turns the lock screen on. It just sits there burning into the monitor. It’s very annoying.

How do people get the screensaver to work on the lock screen no matter what? Is there way to override the preventing sleep status for media players?

I’d prefer that media players can’t prevent the monitor from going to sleep. I often use my Mac as a secondary monitor video player while doing other things, so if it turns off it’s no big deal I can just wiggle the mouse. But this tends to mean that there’s always a video player active on that computer. So that means the screen never sleeps. And I often come back to find the monitor just burning energy, and slowly burning into the screen.