#10363 NORM 10.1.3: Auto-Suspend gets in the way when sharing over Salut

[James Cameron]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 05:38:29PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> 2 - hack the Tubes/Telepathy stack to _prevent sleep_ while an actual
> collaboration session is running

This might help.  Once an activity is shared, the laptop stays awake
until the activity is stopped.

(sugar-toolkit.git)
--- a/src/sugar/activity/activity.py
+++ b/src/sugar/activity/activity.py
@@ -916,6 +916,14 @@ class Activity(Window, gtk.Container):
         self._share_id = self._pservice.connect("activity-shared", 
                                                 self.__share_cb)
         self._pservice.share_activity(self, private=private)
+        # inhibit suspend during sharing
+        path = '/var/run/powerd-inhibit-suspend/%s' % os.getpid()
+        try:
+            fd = open(path, 'w')
+        except IOError:
+            pass
+        else:
+            fd.close()
 
     def _show_keep_failed_dialog(self):
         alert = Alert()

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/