Inhibit Gnome Power Manager from suspending while playing

[Aaron Whitehouse]

All Banshee has to do is call a simple dbus method when playing starts, and a simple dbus method when it's paused or stopped. This way Gnome-Power-Manager doesn't auto-suspend or power-down while banshee is playing.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GnomePowerManagerInactiveSleep for more information.

[Simon Law (sfllaw)]

The code to do this has been checked into CVS upstream.

[Sebastian Dröge (slomo)]

Which we will maybe get already for edgy. Currently upstream is doing heavy development in CVS HEAD and I hope we will get a new release soon...

[Sebastian Dröge (slomo)]

This is fixed with 0.11.0-0ubuntu1 on edgy

[Aaron Whitehouse (aaron-whitehouse)]

I tested this for the first time today on Hardy Alpha 2 and it does not work. The computer suspends while a song is playing.

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

Developer on upstream bug says this should be fixed in 0.13.2. I can't reproduce it here. Reopen if necessary.

[Cory Dodt (corydodt)]

Argh, who thought this would be a good idea? It prevents the laptop from suspending when the lid is closed! If the sound is muted, that means you won't even notice == overheated components and lost laptop lifetime.

This should at least be configurable.

[Aaron Whitehouse (aaron-whitehouse)]

I think that it is a good idea. If I am playing music with the lid
closed, I am usually listening to the music and do not want the
computer to suspend due to inactivity.

If the laptop is low on battery, it will of course still suspend.

You may also find that you enjoy playing music more if you don't have
the sound muted ;)...

[Cory Dodt (corydodt)]

You know that some (most?) laptops are not meant to be run with the lid
closed, right? That's part of the heat dispersal. You're damaging it when
you do that.

And when you get interrupted a lot, you don't always know whether or not the
sound is muted.

[Aaron Whitehouse (aaron-whitehouse)]

Hang on - are you saying that if you have the computer set to suspend
when you close the lid, and you have music playing, closing the lid no
longer suspends the computer? I would consider that a bug, as I would
expect lid-events to trump the suspend inhibit.

If that is the case, I would suggest you file a bug.

When I first read that, I thought that you often listened to the music
with the lid closed, but expected it to suspend after a certain time.

[Haggai Eran (haggai-eran)]

I don't know how it worked in the past, but it doesn't work in Natty. My computer goes into sleep even when Banshee is playing music.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

Switch to "Now Playing" and activate full-screen mode. I think it should probably inhibit the screensaver and consequently the suspend/hibernate-on-idle then.

Apart from that, I think people generally leave Banshee playing music in the background and just leave the computer to idle when they go away from the keyboard. If the computer doesn't activate the screensaver and/or suspend after the idle time is up, it would be pretty confusing and undesirable in those usecases.

[tekstr1der (tekstr1der)]

@Chow Loong Jin: Nope. Even in "Now Playing" & full-screen mode, banshee fails to inhibit both the screensaver and also the suspend after idle timeout.

This bug still exists as of banshee 2.2.1 on oneiric 11.10.