gnome-session-inhibit

' gnome-session -inhibit 'u gnome-session -inhibit [OPTION...] [COMMAND]

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

-h , --help print help and exit

--version print version information and exit

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

--reason REASON A human -readable reason to pass along when calling the gnome -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 .

--inhibit -only Do not launch COMMAND and wait forever instead

systemd-inhibit(1)