RFE: should call the gnome-power-manager InhibitInactiveSleep command

[Aaron Whitehouse]

It would be excellent if gnome-btdownload 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

You also may like to see Bug #39543, Bug #40697 and Bug #38549 which request this functionality from other applications.

Please note that the version of gnome-power-manager in dapper does not have this dbus interface. This seems to be only available in >= 2.15.x so patches adding this should probably be added after Dapper and tested against a suitable version of GPM.

[Richard Hughes (richard-hughes)]

You'll want to use Inhibit(). See http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/gnome-power-manager/docs/gnome-power-manager.html#pm-Compatibility This is due to 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