[plug] Keep-alive remote gnome session

[Lucas van Staden]

Hi,

screen is magic, I never ssh without it.

So, in your case, doing an active ping from the machine that has the 
power save setup, caused the machine to stay up?

Also - could you not send a WOL packet to the laptop from your main 
machine?
That bit works for me using 'wakeonlan', so I can wake it up, not 
prevent the sleep at the moment.

It is a pity the ping did not work, (should it?)
as that would have solved my issue.
It is easy to just send a couple of pings to the remote machine on every 
track change in amarok.

AT the moment, my solution is to:

Write a bit of code in a script on the remote machine that does the 
inhibit and uninhibit parts of the powersave.
On my machine, when amarok starts, I do an ssh to remote machine and 
call that script to inhibit.
Amarok plays, (no further requests), except for a STOP PLAY event (which 
I can trap) which again does an ssh, but this time to uninhibit.
There is also the uninhibit call if amarok is closed.

Seems a bit long winded, so I am still doing a bit of checking to see if 
a simple 'prod' to the remote machine will not also work.
It is just a pity that work gets in the way of giving this my 100%.


-Lucas


Phillip Bennett wrote:
> I had a similar problem this week.  I was trying to ssh from work to
> home, then from my main machine to my laptop.  The laptop was asleep
> before I got to work due to the power saving options (It takes a while
> to get here)...  So I started a screen session on the laptop and started
> pinging the main server, and left for work.  When I got to work, I could
> still log in to the laptop and it was all fine.  When I was done, I just
> reconnected the screen and stopped the pings.
>
> Hth,
> Phil.
>
>
> 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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