Avoid hibernation

mortain · May 17, 2011, 4:28pm

Hello,
I am using a computer for which I do not have the adminstrator priviliges. The IT officer is in vacation and I need to run some simulations. Unfortunately, the system goes on hibernation by default after 30 minutes. I would like to avoid it. Is there a manner to force Open Suse not to go on hibernation while I wait for him to come back and change the power settings?

I guess even a small script that opens and closes a window each 20 minutes should work…

Thank you
Antonio

buckesfeld · May 17, 2011, 5:51pm

Antonio,

you could try opening a console and simply run a “ping some.machine.onyour.network”, maybe that helps.

Uwe

martin_helm · May 17, 2011, 6:24pm

Uwe Buckesfeld wrote:

> Antonio,
>
> you could try opening a console and simply run a “ping
> some.machine.onyour.network”, maybe that helps.
>
> Uwe
I have no idea if that will solve it, but you can try to write a small
script which every ten seconds or so moves the mouse by zero pixels in an
endless loop.


#/bin/bash
while :
do
xvkbd -no-keypad -text "\x+0" 2>/dev/null
sleep 10
done

so consider that just as a funny idea.

mortain · May 18, 2011, 10:58am

Thanks to both!
I can avoid that it goes to hibernate!

Antonio

robin_listas · May 18, 2011, 2:20pm

On 2011-05-17 16:36, mortain wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I am using a computer for which I do not have the adminstrator
> priviliges. The IT officer is in vacation and I need to run some
> simulations. Unfortunately, the system goes on hibernation by default
> after 30 minutes. I would like to avoid it. Is there a manner to force
> Open Suse not to go on hibernation while I wait for him to come back and
> change the power settings?

It is possible that this is just the default desktop settings, and that is
under your control. In gnome, start “gnome-power-preferences”, and you will
see there is an action to put it to sleep if inactive for so many minutes.
In kde there must be another similar setting.,

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)