Wow. This is PATHETIC.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/118138
Title:
When playing music, amarok doesn't prevent the computer to enter sleep
(suspend mode)
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Since there is no desktop independent way to declare suspend as no go, this
would have to be implemented for every desktop, maybe even every power
management application.
Therefore this issue is a Won't Fix currently.
Please suggest some generic way for this kind of stuff to Freedesktop.org so
I've found that a couple of other media players also perform the same
behaviour. It happens with VLC, Songbird and Totem Movie Player (which
is Ubuntu's default movie player, but not Rhythmbox).
Bugs will have to be reported for each media player, however, it seems
unintuitive that Gnome's sleep
One should note that it's not a whishlist. For example, other media
players prevent the computer to enter sleep when playing (if you've ever
played a movie in Ubuntu, you'll notice you don't have to move the mouse
every now and then to prevent the computer to go to sleep :) )
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When playing
