Inhibit Sleep when running certain kinds of tasks
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(Arguably terminals should take suspend inhibitors to turn off the auto suspend when a command is executing. But they don’t.) @mcantazaro power: Add increase power consuption description for automatic suspend (!3082) · Merge requests · GNOME / Settings · GitLab We want to inhibit when running stuff like pacman, wget, cp or mv We don’t want to inhibit when running stuff like htop, less, watch Should we be looking into implementing this in konsole or is it better to implement this in the sh...

A person, on the Gnome Issue, suggested that terminals inhibit sleep when there is stuff running in them.

Continuing from that discussion, I am trying to understand, at which point it would be desirable to implement said inhibition - terminal emulator, the shell or the program itself

Additionally:

  • We want to inhibit when running stuff like pacman, wget, cp or mv
  • We don’t want to inhibit when running stuff like htop, less, watch
  • solrize@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 days ago

    I remember writing a script that posted an X event 1x a minute for something like that. The event was probably simulating pressing the shift key.

    • ulterno@programming.devOPEnglish
      0·
      15 hours ago

      It shouldn’t be required on systems that support the corresponding FDO spec, but I guess, that would be done when that was not implemented.