Inhibit Sleep when running certain kinds of tasks
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(Arguably terminals should take suspend inhibitors to turn off the auto suspend when a command is executing. But they don’t.) @mcantazaro power: Add increase power consuption description for automatic suspend (!3082) · Merge requests · GNOME / Settings · GitLab 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 Should we be looking into implementing this in konsole or is it better to implement this in the sh...

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
  • Corngood@lemmy.ml
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    1 day 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.