noidle

[Rainer Müller]

On 2012-03-23 03:35, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
>> The energy saver system preferences are for setting how long your computer
>> waits to go to sleep when it is idle; building something with MacPorts is
>> not being idle. I imagine the power manager probably largely just looks at
>> whether there is mouse movement or keyboard input to determine whether the
>> system is idle. Note that video players like VLC and Apple's DVD Player
>> probably also manipulate the power manager so the system doesn't go to
>> sleep in the middle of a video.
> 
> Do we really want to be responsible for energy saver settings, which will
> require sudo for people not using a root-installed MacPorts?

There has to be a way to control this from user space API, as the video players
given as example above allow to stop the display going blank and prevent system
sleep. However, I assume this would require interfacing with Cocoa API?

Rainer