[ale] Power Management & /etc/default

[Nolan Voight]

Okay, this works, but is not elegant.  Came across the xdg-utils while
reading, tried:
xwininfo -int
(to get the Window ID, then)
xdg-screensaver suspend [Window ID]

Made it through a movie without the screen going black. Too specific,
though--close the browser, open it again, different Window ID. Close
programs, walk away, desktop blacks out. Anybody know how to
generalize this? Window Zero doesn't work:
xdg-screensaver suspend 0
xdg-screensaver: Window 0 does not exist

Nor does the wildcard:
xdg-screensaver suspend *
xdg-screensaver: Window acpi-support does not exist



On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Nolan Voight <nolan.voight at gmail.com> wrote:
> So far as I know. Been reading through Gnome/Ubuntu/Mint documentation
> to see if I'm looking in the wrong places altogether.
>
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Watson, Keith <krwatson at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
>> I assumed (bad idea) that you were running X Windows. Are you?
>>
>> keith
>>
>> --
>>
>> Keith R. Watson                        Georgia Institute of Technology
>> IT Support professional Lead           College of Computing
>> keith.watson at cc.gatech.edu             801 Atlantic Drive NW
>> (404) 385-7401                         Atlanta, GA 30332-0280
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Nolan
>>> Voight
>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 18:45
>>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>>> Subject: Re: [ale] Power Management & /etc/default
>>>
>>> Thank you, Keith. I restored everything to default, then tried your
>>> suggestions, but that didn't do it. Anywhere in the logs that might
>>> tell me where this is getting called from?
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Watson, Keith <krwatson at cc.gatech.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Open a shell and type the following
>>> >
>>> > xset s off
>>> > xset -dpms
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > If you want to make the settings permanent edit the following file:
>>> >
>>> >   /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
>>> >
>>> > and place the flowing lines before # invoke global X session script
>>> >
>>> > # turn off screen blanking and monitor energy star features
>>> > /usr/bin/xset s off
>>> > /usr/bin/xset -dpms
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > keith
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> >
>>> > Keith R. Watson                        Georgia Institute of Technology
>>> > IT Support professional Lead           College of Computing
>>> > keith.watson at cc.gatech.edu             801 Atlantic Drive NW
>>> > (404) 385-7401                         Atlanta, GA 30332-0280
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >> -----Original Message-----
>>> >> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
>>> Nolan
>>> >> Voight
>>> >> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 13:12
>>> >> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>>> >> Subject: [ale] Power Management & /etc/default
>>> >>
>>> >> I switched from Ubuntu to Linux Mint last month, for the usual reason.
>>> >> I'm running it on a PC, and am having the dickens of a time trying to
>>> >> figure out how to keep it from going into Standby or Suspend long
>>> >> enough for me to watch a doggone movie. The dconf Editor doesn't seem
>>> >> to pay any mind to the values I've increased in what seemed the likely
>>> >> places in org-gnome-settings-daemon-plugins-power. Maybe I should try
>>> >> 0 instead of large numbers--would that mean False, or would that throw
>>> >> it into suspend immediately?
>>> >>
>>> >> Reading this page:
>>> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerManagement
>>> >> makes me wonder if I should try editing /etc/default/acpi-support, but
>>> >> reading that file, the lines which would help are in the Legacy
>>> >> (deprecated) section. I've called up the man page for pm-hibernate,
>>> >> but have no idea where I would control that. Any suggestions?
>>> >> Something real obvious I've missed?
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