[plug] Keep-alive remote gnome session

[Lucas van Staden]

Thank you,

I see there are inhibit/uninhibit commands that I can use.

Will add that to amarok start and stop, rather than track change.

-Lucas

W.Kenworthy wrote:

> 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.
>
>   
mounts are always mounted from my machine to hers (except of course when 
hers has gone to sleep)
so that option would just disable her suspend permanently.

My machine never sleeps, it is always busy with something, but amarok is 
not always open or playing.




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