hi, On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:55:55 -0800 Joshua Minor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Some screensaver APIs have a method to defer sleep/screensaver by a > given amount instead of turning it off entirely. This would let you > solve the issue without fear of accidentally disabling it permanently > (for example if your activity crashes before turning it back on). > I thought SUGAR takes care about crashed activities? A few lines of extra code in SUGAR costs less than an extra screensaver, I guess. If this is not true the screensaver API could be a nice way. yokoy > -josh > > On Jan 13, 2008, at 1:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:51:39 -0500 > > Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >>> Earlier, had not noticed my G1G1 going into suspend. Now, with 681 > >>> + d08, it does so when left to sit. Unfortunately, after suspend > >>> my wired connection no longer works after the system wakes. Can I > >>> prevent suspend from happening? > >> > >> Yes, with "touch /etc/ohm/inhibit-suspend". (And "rm" it when done.) > > > > I think, sugar should take care of this if an activity do not want > > the suspend feature. When the suspend locking activity has been > > finished and there is no other activity that is locking the suspend > > "/etc/ohm/inhibit-suspend" could be removed. > > Maybe an activity could attache a line in /home/olpc/.inhibit- > > suspend with it's activity name. When the activity is done, this > > line will be removed from itself or sugar. If there is no line left > > in this file sugar could remove /etc/ohm/inhibit-suspend. > > > >> > >>> [Seems to me such a situation can occur with a child -- what if he > >>> is running a science experiment powered from the OLPC USB bus? He > >>> would not want his experiment interrupted by the OLPC dropping > >>> power (as happened to my USB-keyboard when the XO suspended).] > >> > >> Yes, we've considered refusing to suspend when certain classes of USB > >> devices are plugged in. This hasn't been implemented yet, though. > > > > Classes and activities could use the same file as mentioned above? > > > > > > yokoy > > > >> > >> - Chris. > >> -- > >> Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Devel mailing list > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > > > > -- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
