how to prevent standby during critical operations on linux

2010-04-05 Thread frm
Hi all, I've written an application based on GTK (which loads some gnome libs dynamically to avoid static linker dependencies) which needs to perform an important operation which cannot be interrupted by e.g. automatic standby because of user inactivity. I'd like to know how to tell the OS or

Re: how to prevent standby during critical operations on linux

2010-04-06 Thread frm
Hi, A. Walton-2 wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 5:46 AM, frm wrote: >> What do you suggest? >> Is there some simple example code for using DBus+DeviceKit-power from a >> GTK >> app somewhere? > http://people.gnome.org/~mccann/gnom