Bug 655398 – provide API for inhibit screensaver/suspend/etc

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Bug 655398 - provide API for inhibit screensaver/suspend/etc


Summary:	provide API for inhibit screensaver/suspend/etc


Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	gtk+
Classification:	Platform
Component:	Widget: Other
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other All

Importance:	Normal enhancement
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	gtk-bugs
QA Contact:	gtk-bugs

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Reported:	2011-07-27 09:11 UTC by Allison Karlitskaya (desrt)
Modified:	2012-01-26 04:08 UTC

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Description Allison Karlitskaya (desrt) 2011-07-27 09:11:09 UTC

A nice addition to gtk (or gio?) might be some interfaces to let apps request that the screensaver or suspend features be inhibited.  I guess this is available on just about every platform, and there's no common way for apps to deal with this.

It also prevents apps randomly poking D-Bus interfaces and prevents creating a silly libinhibit or something like that.

Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2011-07-27 13:38:35 UTC

Relevant art:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-screensaver/commit/?id=db23fe2694a928ce7d346118913681952e0edb56

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-session/tree/gnome-session/org.gnome.SessionManager.xml

Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2011-07-27 23:34:40 UTC

It turns out the current way of doing this in gnome is to inhibit the session from going idle.

Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2012-01-26 04:08:10 UTC

Added in GtkApplication, a while ago