Prevent system sleep/suspend with user-space application (like vlc)?
I have had a need to run my computer as a server temporarily, and so I tried to prevent from Ubuntu 18.04 Settings that it sleeps - this failed, as I realized a day later the computer had its screen and wifi off, so probably some sort of sleep occurred.
So now I have slightly less trust in (my ability to set up) the Settings; on the other hand, I've noticed, that if I have say VLC player play a video on loop, the system tends to never go to sleep.
I'm not sure what it is exactly that VLC does - but is there an application I could use (with GUI or without), that I could run, and as long as it is running, it prevents system sleep - except without having to play video and sound? Basically, something I could start from the command line, leave it on (blocking the terminal) so it prevents sleep, - and in the end I either close the GUI window, or hit Ctrl-C in the terminal, to exit?
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I have had a need to run my computer as a server temporarily, and so I tried to prevent from Ubuntu 18.04 Settings that it sleeps - this failed, as I realized a day later the computer had its screen and wifi off, so probably some sort of sleep occurred.
So now I have slightly less trust in (my ability to set up) the Settings; on the other hand, I've noticed, that if I have say VLC player play a video on loop, the system tends to never go to sleep.
I'm not sure what it is exactly that VLC does - but is there an application I could use (with GUI or without), that I could run, and as long as it is running, it prevents system sleep - except without having to play video and sound? Basically, something I could start from the command line, leave it on (blocking the terminal) so it prevents sleep, - and in the end I either close the GUI window, or hit Ctrl-C in the terminal, to exit?
18.04 suspend
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I have had a need to run my computer as a server temporarily, and so I tried to prevent from Ubuntu 18.04 Settings that it sleeps - this failed, as I realized a day later the computer had its screen and wifi off, so probably some sort of sleep occurred.
So now I have slightly less trust in (my ability to set up) the Settings; on the other hand, I've noticed, that if I have say VLC player play a video on loop, the system tends to never go to sleep.
I'm not sure what it is exactly that VLC does - but is there an application I could use (with GUI or without), that I could run, and as long as it is running, it prevents system sleep - except without having to play video and sound? Basically, something I could start from the command line, leave it on (blocking the terminal) so it prevents sleep, - and in the end I either close the GUI window, or hit Ctrl-C in the terminal, to exit?
18.04 suspend
asked 10 mins ago
sdaausdaau
1,58012738
I have had a need to run my computer as a server temporarily, and so I tried to prevent from Ubuntu 18.04 Settings that it sleeps - this failed, as I realized a day later the computer had its screen and wifi off, so probably some sort of sleep occurred.
So now I have slightly less trust in (my ability to set up) the Settings; on the other hand, I've noticed, that if I have say VLC player play a video on loop, the system tends to never go to sleep.
I'm not sure what it is exactly that VLC does - but is there an application I could use (with GUI or without), that I could run, and as long as it is running, it prevents system sleep - except without having to play video and sound? Basically, something I could start from the command line, leave it on (blocking the terminal) so it prevents sleep, - and in the end I either close the GUI window, or hit Ctrl-C in the terminal, to exit?
18.04 suspend
18.04 suspend
asked 10 mins ago
sdaausdaau
1,58012738
asked 10 mins ago
sdaausdaau
1,58012738
asked 10 mins ago
sdaausdaau
1,58012738
asked 10 mins ago
sdaausdaau
1,58012738
asked 10 mins ago
sdaausdaau
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1,58012738
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