Screen dims while video-calling. How to re-adjust?

I recently installed Fedora 36 workstation. Playing videos on VLC inhibits idleness just fine. But when making video calls using Signal, it fails to inhibit idle state. It’s a bit of a chore to de-select and re-select the dim screen option every time between calls. Is there a way to fix the power management settings for video calls as such?
Thanks,

There’s a Gnome Extension that helps with this called Caffeine:

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/517/caffeine/

I considered that, but I get the message that says “Your native host connector do not support following APIs: v6. You should probably upgrade native host connector or install plugins for missing APIs”. So I’m guessing I’ll have to wait until the bug is resolved before I get to try Caffeine and the other Gnome Extensions. Not sure if there’s any way around that error.

I was able to install extensions on firefox and chrome with that error, more info;
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/cant-add-extensions-from-extensions-gnome-org-anymore/25251/8?u=grumpey

thanks

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It does install indeed! Thank you!

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