power saving?

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 22:18 +0300, cornel panceac wrote:

> thank you , roy. i wonder if there's a way to tell the system to stay
> awake while different selected user space programs are running (like
> mplayer, eog, movie player, etc).

Applications can tell the system not to suspend (it's called 'inhibiting
suspend') but they have to choose to do so. I don't think presentation
apps or music players do. Totem, for instance, does inhibit suspend
while it's playing video (not sure about music).
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