[plug] Keep-alive remote gnome session

[W.Kenworthy]

google gconftool-2 gnome-power-manager

You should be able to control it there.  Perhaps get your script to see
if there are any active nfsmounts and then disable suspend.

e.g., gconftool-2 -R /apps/gnome-power-manager


BillK



On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 11:39 +0800, Lucas van Staden wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Music is stored on wife's machine, shared using a nfs share.
> Her machine is configured to 'sleep' after and hour's inactivity (done 
> using the gnome settings for screensaver/power management.)
> 
> The obvious issue is that when I am listening to music (using Amarok), 
> the share would go away.
> 
> I manually send a wakeonlan packet to the machine to wake it back up, 
> but that has become tedious, so I created a small script for amarok 
> which runs on each song change.
> 
> the hope was that I could just ping to the remote machine on each song 
> change to keep it awake. It does not work. Ping was done with -c 3 to 
> limit pings sent.
> 
> The settings in question must only be looking at the gnome (xorg) 
> session activity, so the ping is not registering.
> 
> Any ideas how I can keep it alive via the script.
> I can do a remote ssh connection with a command to run (will setup 
> private key to make that passwordless), but I have no idea what to do to 
> make the remote session stay active from the shell.
> 
> 
> -Lucas
> 
> _______________________________________________
> PLUG discussion list: plug at plug.org.au
> http://www.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug
> Committee e-mail: committee at plug.linux.org.au