UNITY -prevent s3 idle suspend during SMB access

[fredknex]

So back before the switch to unity there was a command that reset the idle timer

"gnome-screensaver-command --poke"

that could be set up to stop the computer from suspending itself when the SMB share is being accessed.


This doesnt work in Unity, is there an equivalent?


Thanks for any help

[fredknex]

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[thaelim]

You can use the Gnome session dbus interface:

http://live.gnome.org/GnomePowerManager/DbusInterface

It has an Inhibit method you can call to prevent idle. There is even an example file of how to do this.

[fredknex]

great! Except none of the links on that page seem to be working.
But its enough I feel like I'm on the right track now, thanks!