GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 329265
Don't put display to sleep when program's x, y or z are running
Last modified: 2006-01-30 21:56:04 UTC
I put my lcd screen to sleep after 5 min to spare the backlight. But I also use my notebook to watch tv and dvd/movies. It would be nice if gnome-power-manger detects programs like mythtv, mplayer, totem, xine to be running and don't put the display to sleep.
GNOME power manager will have a DBUS interface like gnome screensaver so that programs can prevent gpm from putting the LCD screen to sleep a similar interface should be prevent suspending. That's being discussed in bug 326644 So I'm marking this bug as a duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 326644 ***