Autodetect running programs using regexp

Bug #1292956 reported by Pavlo Shchelokovskyy
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Caffeine
Won't Fix
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Bug Description

It might be useful to include ability to autodetect running programs based on user-provided regular expression.

(My) particular use-case - most of the Steam games I have I play with Xbox controller, and somehow Ubuntu does not count controller events as input, so to prevent my notebook from dimming the screen etc I have to resort to Caffeine when playing games. But I have to manually input names of all corresponding executables of all the games installed, and keep this list updated. Would've been nice to be able to input something like "/SteamApps/.*" so that any program which path matches this regex would trigger automatic enabling of Caffeine.

Tags: wishlist
Reuben Thomas (rrt)
Changed in caffeine:
status: New → Won't Fix
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