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Diagnosing bugs preventing sleep on Windows
TL;DR: Diagnosing programs causing insomnia is quite straightforward on Windows. My employer has a policy set for Windows machines which locks each computer automatically after some inactivity. One…
At this point, this bug seemed like an easy one: recently, a new onboarding feature was merged into the codebase, which displays a little floating “what’s new in the software” type of dialog, including a small video snippet for demonstration purposes. At this point, my PTSD started to kick in: maybe this is one of those super-exotic CEF bugs that practically no one encountered other than you before, takes ages to debug, and then randomly disappears when you upgrade to a future version (been there, done that). Even though for this relatively simple case breakpoints were more than adequate, there could be situations where the number of power requests would make this kind of approach unfeasible.
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