mate-session-inhibit (1) - Linux Manuals

mate-session-inhibit: inhibit mate-session functionality

Command to display mate-session-inhibit manual in Linux: $ man 1 mate-session-inhibit

NAME

mate-session-inhibit - inhibit mate-session functionality

SYNOPSIS

mate-session-inhibit [OPTION...] {COMMAND}

DESCRIPTION

mate-session-inhibit

can inhibit certain mate-session functionality while executing the given COMMAND. To achieve this, it calls the Inhibit() method of the mate-session D-Bus API and creates an inhibitor. The inhibitor is automatically removed when mate-session-inhibit exits.

A typical use case is to prevent the session from going idle (and thus locking the screen) while a movie player is running.

OPTIONS

-h, --help

: print help and exit

--version

: print version information and exit

--app-id ID

: The application id to use when calling the mate-session Inhibit() method. If this option is not specified, "unknown" is used.

--reason REASON

: A human-readable reason to pass along when calling the mate-session Inhibit() method. If this option is not specified, "not specified" is used.

--inhibit ARG

: ARG specifies the things to inhibit, as a colon-separated list. The possible values are logout, switch-user, suspend, idle, automount. If this option is used more than once, the values are combined. If this option is not specified, "idle" is assumed.