Public bug reported: All Nautilus has to do is call a simple dbus method when moving or copying starts, and a simple dbus method when it's finished. This way g-p-m doesn't auto-suspend or power-down when Nautilus is in the middle of copying or moving.
See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GnomePowerManagerInactiveSleep for more information. ** Affects: nautilus (upstream) Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged Status: Unconfirmed ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #334806 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334806 ** Also affects: nautilus (upstream) via http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334806 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- Inhibit Gnome Power Manager from suspending due to inactivity when moving or copying https://launchpad.net/bugs/49258 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs