i don't understand how this power saving works. my thinkpad suspended while playing music, my desktop suspended while displaying a slideshow. why the power management ignored those two activities?
On 10/07/2011 01:10 PM, cornel panceac wrote:
i don't understand how this power saving works. my thinkpad suspended while playing music, my desktop suspended while displaying a slideshow. why the power management ignored those two activities?
Hi,
I think that is supposed to be the way it works, meaning based on input (keyboard/mouse), not what programs are running.
Roy Six
2011/10/7 Roy Six royxis@gmail.com
On 10/07/2011 01:10 PM, cornel panceac wrote:
i don't understand how this power saving works. my thinkpad suspended
while
playing music, my desktop suspended while displaying a slideshow. why the power management ignored those two activities?
Hi,
I think that is supposed to be the way it works, meaning based on input (keyboard/mouse), not what programs are running.
Roy Six
thank you , roy. i wonder if there's a way to tell the system to stay awake
while different selected user space programs are running (like mplayer, eog, movie player, etc).
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 22:18 +0300, cornel panceac wrote:
thank you , roy. i wonder if there's a way to tell the system to stay awake
while different selected user space programs are running (like mplayer, eog, movie player, etc).
Mplayer and probably most movie players can suppress the screen saver. So then the problem simplifies to can GNOME be made smart enough to leave the system powered up if the screen is on even if no keyboard or mouse activity is going on.
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:04:23 -0500 John Morris wrote:
Mplayer and probably most movie players can suppress the screen saver.
They can suppress the X screensaver, but the X screensaver and power management isn't good enough for gnome, they have to have their own entirely separate system which operates on entirely different mechanisms.
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On 10/07/2011 03:19 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:04:23 -0500 John Morris wrote:
Mplayer and probably most movie players can suppress the screen saver.
They can suppress the X screensaver, but the X screensaver and power management isn't good enough for gnome, they have to have their own entirely separate system which operates on entirely different mechanisms.
gnome-mplayer can be configured to use the gnome-session-manager to inhibit screen saving.
Kevin
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On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 22:18 +0300, cornel panceac wrote:
thank you , roy. i wonder if there's a way to tell the system to stay awake while different selected user space programs are running (like mplayer, eog, movie player, etc).
Applications can tell the system not to suspend (it's called 'inhibiting suspend') but they have to choose to do so. I don't think presentation apps or music players do. Totem, for instance, does inhibit suspend while it's playing video (not sure about music).
2011/10/8 Adam Williamson awilliam@redhat.com
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 22:18 +0300, cornel panceac wrote:
thank you , roy. i wonder if there's a way to tell the system to stay awake while different selected user space programs are running (like mplayer, eog, movie player, etc).
Applications can tell the system not to suspend (it's called 'inhibiting suspend') but they have to choose to do so. I don't think presentation apps or music players do. Totem, for instance, does inhibit suspend while it's playing video (not sure about music).
is ti possible to have a list of applications that run by default, and everything else is considered "activity"?
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