[mythtv-users] suspend

[Kevin Johnson]

So possibly a dumb question, but why not do it like I am?

dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.
UPower" /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend

Is this somehow wrong?  Does this not work for you?

Not saying the way I did it is right or wrong.  Just asking.




On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Thomas Boehm <
mythtv-users at lists.boehmi.net> wrote:

> On 20/07/14 03:45, Kevin Johnson wrote:
> > Is there a way to easily enable suspend with mythtv?
> >
> > I hate to make the comparison, but I have 3 different computers running
> > mythtv and xbmc.  With xbmc, I have the option to suspend with the
> > remote.  This option works on all 3 computers.  I do not see this option
> > with myth.  Is this easily enabled?
>
> I do it on my frontends like this. I removed gnome-screensaver and
> installed xscreensaver. When the user logs in, he starts xscreensaver
> and this little perl script
>
> ----------------------
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> my $blanked = 0;
> open (IN, "xscreensaver-command -watch |");
> while (<IN>) {
>         if (m/^(BLANK|LOCK)/) {
>                 if (!$blanked) {
>                         system "sudo pm-suspend";
>                         $blanked = 1;
>                 }
>         } elsif (m/^UNBLANK/) {
>                 system "sound-on";
>                 $blanked = 0;
>         }
> }
> ---------------------
>
> Then set the screensaver idle time and the system suspends after that
> time when there is no activity. No fiddling with buttons on your remote
> control needed and you can't forget to suspend. When you're watching
> something on the frontend, it pokes the screensaver every minute.
>
> With xbmc it gets a bit more complicated though as it doesn't poke the
> screensaver as far as I know. So you could terminate xscreensaver when
> you start xbmc and start it again when you quit.
>
> HTH
> Thomas
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