Ekiga should call the gnome-power-manager InhibitInactiveSleep command

[Aaron Whitehouse]

I was just in the middle of a voice call and my machine suspended.

It would be excellent if ekiga could let Gnome-Power-Manager know not to go to sleep using the InhibitInactiveSleep call.

Please find more information:
http://live.gnome.org/GnomePowerManager/Faq#head-ec399a12ba6d1a8461e5d6af7394d9560a838bc4
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334809

This is distinguished from Bug #30659 because I do not expect ekiga to inhibit the screensaver. I don't mind if the screen blanks (in fact I would like it to do so), but I can't think of a good reason why it should suspend when you are *in* a call (the inhibit should begin as a call begins and stop when the call ends - so that it doesn't inhibit when it is sitting idle 'waiting' for a call).

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Thanks for forwarding it.

[Aaron Whitehouse (aaron-whitehouse)]

Please note, it seems that the call only works in GPM 2.15+ so, while it would be excellent if the code could be written, the patch may only work post Dapper (which still uses GPM 2.14).

[Richard Hughes (richard-hughes)]

Daniel, you'll want to use Inhibit() rather than InhibitInactiveSleep. See http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/gnome-power-manager/docs/gnome-power-manager.html#pm-Compatibility -- this is due to the XDG standardisation.

[Aaron Whitehouse (aaron-whitehouse)]

I have (with Richard's help) compiled some information on this in the Ubuntu wiki. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GnomePowerManagerInactiveSleep

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

According to upstream's comments, this is a duplicate of https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screensaver/+bug/30659 (both have the same upstream bug)

[Aaron Whitehouse (aaron-whitehouse)]

Yes. While I disagree with the decision, I have been overruled upstream.