suspend on 'idle'

[Ixo X oxI]

One method also to keep the XO from going into 'keyboard-idle' mode...

Sometimes what I do, is hit one of the 'modifer' keys on the keyboard to
keep the machine awake.  (i.e. Hand, Fn, Ctrl, Shift, Top row function keys,
etc)....

I wonder if there's a method to simulate this in software, so one could keep
a 'console' window (2 or 3?) open running the 'non-idle-keyboard'
application and keep the laptop awake when you want it ? :)

-iXo

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 21:01, Mikus Grinbergs <mikus at bga.com> wrote:

> First of all. I want to mention that when I first install a Joyride
> build, the initial state of the 'inhibit' flags (i.e., filenames) in
> /etc and /etc/ohm is "not present" -- that allows the XO to
> 'suspend'.  Yet on the 'Power' sub-panel within the olpc 'Control
> Panel', the 'Automatic power management' box is __NOT__ checked.  I
> thought that box would control 'suspend' -- and leaving it unchecked
> would mean "I don't want my XO to suspend".   Seems like an
> incompatibility somewhere.
>
> More to the point, I perform a number of actions as part of
> "installing" a new build.  Lately, if I forget to first set
> 'inhibit-idle-suspend', the XO is __suspending__ on me while
> performing downloads (via yum) of modules to augment what the build
> contained.  [I use ethernet, and 'suspend' currently kills it - so I
> have to reboot to again have an ethernet connection.]  I *really*
> would like 'idle' to mean "processor is idle" -- not just "keyboard
> is idle" (of course my keyboard is idle -- I'm waiting for the
> still-ongoing downloads to finish before I type the next command).
>
> mikus
>
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