Why does Audacity prevent my screen saver from activating?

[Emerogork]

Just having it loaded, not even recording or playing, my screens remain active. (Win 10, Audacity 3.7.3)

Is there a fix for this?

[Wrecks0]

Any time your computer is involved in a multimedia activity (which includes audio), the monitors will not go blank. This is to prevent something like watching a DVD from turning off the screen before it is done.

[Emerogork]

Audacity recording or playing, does not need the screen all the time. Is there not an option that will allow the user to choose?

[Wrecks0]

There is no Audacity setting that I know of that controls this behavior. It is done by the operating system.

You may find something in your operating system settings to do that, but I would expect it to be complicated to find and test because you would have to wait for a time-out to see if it worked every time you change something.

You could set up a keyboard combination to invoke the screen saver when you plan to leave Audacity running unattended.