Inhibit sleep when running stuff in the terminal. Thoughts? (discuss.kde.org)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A person, on the Gnome Issue, suggested that terminals inhibit sleep when there is stuff running in them.

Continuing from that discussion, I am trying to understand, at which point it would be desirable to implement said inhibition - terminal emulator, the shell or the program itself

Additionally:

We want to inhibit when running stuff like pacman, wget, cp or mv
We don't want to inhibit when running stuff like htop, less, watch

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I use gnome-session-inhibit quite a bit, but it's hard to imagine a good way to automate it.

Sometimes I inhibit idle to keep something on screen, and sometimes I just inhibit suspend so something can complete.

It probably doesn't make sense for the terminal to have anything more than a protocol to control it. The only real benefit to that would be in remote sessions, and it's not really clear how it should work when multiple machines are involved.

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