Another option I just discovered would be something like this:
while true; do dbus-send --session --dest=org.gnome.ScreenSaver
--type=method_call /org/gnome/ScreenSaver
org.gnome.ScreenSaver.SimulateUserActivity; sleep 30; done
30 should be slightly less than your screensaver timeout (in seconds
xdg-screensaver requires a windowid to suspend it. Once that window
disappears, gnome-screensaver automatically resumes.
I was having a problem with mplayer not inhibiting gnome-screensaver, so
I wrote this bash alias to inhibit it for mplayer:
alias xdg-screensaver-mplayer-suspend="xdg-screensav
I just tried to use the dialpad in empathy 2.30.0 in Ubuntu 10.04. The
automated system I was using required me to press the # key. Upon
pressing the # key, no tone was generated; the automated system I called
(sipgate.com's echo number) did not recognize any tone.
--
no dialpad to make phonecall
Why is this so far back on the Roadmap? This is a serious problem with
Empathy. With it being the official IM client in Gnome and Ubuntu, it
needs to behave like people expect multi-protocol IM clients to behave,
and contact grouping is a feature that pretty much every other similar
program does. I
