suspend on 'idle'

Chris Ball cjb at laptop.org
Fri Aug 8 12:57:06 EDT 2008


Hi,

   > 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 ? :)

Why not just `touch /etc/ohm/inhibit-idle-suspend`?

- Chris.
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Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>



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