Disabling vlc's habit of blocking power events only helps if the problem app is
vlc -- and if your system isn't already in the bad state.
Any buggy app could tell gnome-power-manager to block power events, then die
without cleaning itself up. So I break this down into several bugs:
1. (moderate): vlc should clean up its power event management no matter
how it exits
2. (severe): g-p-m should have a way of noticing that clients which told it to
do
something have disappeared, and stop paying attention to their directives (apps
should
be able to issue permanent directives [intended to extend past their own death]
but
the default should be for the life of the caller)
3. (annoyance): g-p-m does not store these directives in the gconf database;
`gconftool -R /apps/gnome-power-manager | grep vlc` returns nothing. Nor does
`gconftool -R / | grep vlc` -- I'm not 100% sure g-p-m is the real thing here or
just a UI.
4. (feature request): g-p-m should have a UI with which a user can override
directives like this. I often suspend in the middle of playing media, who is
vlc to
say I can't do that?
5. (feature request): g-p-m should have a UI to browse stored directives set by
various programs. I'd like to be able to see: name of program issuing the
directive; its PID; time; rules ("block suspend, block hibernate, ..."); reason
("Playing some media").
6. (feature request): /apps/gnome-power-manager/general/ignore_inhibit_requests
= true
should cause g-p-m to ignore already-submitted inhibit requests, not just new
ones.
The lack of this prevents a better workaround.
7. (information request): is there a better workaround with current shipping
g-p-m
than fixing the buggy apps? Restarting g-p-m would probably clear the
condition;
I haven't tried as this is my primary interface to the world and I don't want to
crash it. I carry my laptop around from location to location, rebooting it as
rarely
as possible. This is much easier when suspend works. I don't want to reboot to
"fix" it, this isn't Windows...
8. (doc bug): there doesn't seem to be any useful doc about the Gnome Power
Management library ("org.freedesktop.PowerManagement.Inhibit" in the Python
binding).
There's a FAQ that has an old buggy example:
http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-power-manager/stable/faq.html.en
#faq-inhibit
and that's the best I can find.
--
Multiple applications have stopped the suspend from taking place. vlc : Playing
some media
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290753
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