Re: how to prevent standby during critical operations on linux

["A. Walton" <awalton gnome org>]

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:05 PM, frm <francesco montorsi gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> A. Walton-2 wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 5:46 AM, frm <francesco montorsi gmail com> wrote:
> > > What do you suggest?
> > > Is there some simple example code for using DBus+DeviceKit-power from a
> > > GTK
> > > app somewhere?
> > http://people.gnome.org/~mccann/gnome-session/docs/gnome-session.html#org.gnome.SessionManager.Inhibit
> > is probably what you're looking for on GNOME.
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Just a few more questions about it:
> 1) the page you linked seems to contain API docs for a generic language (not
> necessarily C/C++) nor it contains any info about which library/header files
> contain those APIs... how can I use it from a C/C++ program?

It's the D-Bus api, as it says on the page.

> 2) is there some example of apps already using that library?

http://git.gnome.org/browse/brasero/tree/libbrasero-burn/burn-dbus.c
http://git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus/commit/?id=37e7ceca45aea48129cf55ea2583f23330d26b91

-A. Walton

> Thank you very much indeed!
> Francesco
>
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