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Fabby
Fabby
2:22 PM
#!/bin/bash
for szUserName in /home/* ;
do
szBaseUserName=$(basename "$szUserName")
sudo --set-home --user=$szBaseUserName gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-suspend-with-external-monitor false
sudo --set-home --user=$szBaseUserName gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-type 'nothing'
sudo --set-home --user=$szBaseUserName gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-sleep 'nothing'
sudo --set-home --user=$szBaseUserName gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-suspend 'nothing'
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Is that above the new script?
 
Fabby
Fabby
yep!
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Shouldn't I try terdon's answer first? I did all he told me and now would just have to test it, but the many browser tabs want to be processed first...
 
Fabby
Fabby
Up to you!
The only error I had was a typo in szBaseUserName
 
terdon
terdon
I think Fabby's approach will only affect things running through the GUI and only those GUIs based on GNOME at that
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
2:25 PM
I save the script and execute it later, if I still need to, okay?
 
Fabby
Fabby
There are 3 people waiting in this room
I bow to the master...
;-)
OK...
 
terdon
terdon
Also, that will 1) only affect users whose home is in /home (so, not system users) and 2) tat is a very bad way to get usernames. Anything can be in /home, including a lost+found folder.
 
Fabby
Fabby
Let's leave this room then!
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Nobody tells the people to wait in here, just get a cup of coffee or read the news... ;-)
 
Fabby
Fabby
@Terdon:
I wanted a list of users that actually have a GUI
 
terdon
terdon
2:27 PM
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A: Can the /home folder in Linux contain anything else but user folders?

terdonI assume you're using a Linux system, but it shouldn't make any difference anyway. You can have anything you like in /home, there is no restriction. It is simply the standard place where user home directories are kept but many systems have them in different locations. OSX, for example, uses /User...

@Fabby The gdm/mdm/lightdm user does and their home is not in /home
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
Okay, I let you argue in here and hurry up to finish my browser work...
 
Fabby
Fabby
Do you have a different algorithm then?
 
terdon
terdon
So with your approach, I think that you can still suspend from the login screen.
 
Fabby
Fabby
I've only been using Ubuntu for a bit more then a year now...
 
terdon
terdon
In any case, you'll still be able to suspend from sudo pm-suspend
 
Fabby
Fabby
2:28 PM
yes!
If you want to you still can!
It's just the automatic suspend that's disabled...
(as this was the original question)
ByteCommander has modified his requirements since then,
 
terdon
terdon
@Fabby Oh, is that what he wants? I thought he wanted to disable it completely at the "kernel level"
 
Fabby
Fabby
But I proposed to continue working on my solution
to his original requirements
 
terdon
terdon
Also, I don't think your method (not sure, mind you) would work on lxde or any non-gnome family DE
 
Fabby
Fabby
(no, he doesn't)
yeah!
He installed LXDE just to see oif it would help him!
>:)
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
To remember: all users (including login-screen = no user), all DEs, all triggers (including manually)
 
terdon
terdon
2:31 PM
ANd did it?
 
Fabby
Fabby
nah
 
terdon
terdon
@ByteCommander Then use the one I found on SF. I tested with pm-suspend and with a GUI suspend command and neither worked.
 
Fabby
Fabby
that's why I continued working on my solution... Just in case no one else would come up with anything
Yes!
My opinion exactly...
 
terdon
terdon
@Fabby Yeah, those settings are gnome stuff (including gnome-derived like unity, cinnamon, mate etc)
 
Fabby
Fabby
That's what I meant by "my answer will be deleted forever"
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
2:32 PM
Erm, can't I close the desktop notification window somehow without switching to the chat tab?
 
Fabby
Fabby
Anyway,
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
That annoys me somehow...
 
Fabby
Fabby
@Terdon: I don't see an algorithm in your post to get users with a GUI...
(or which one)
Would you have smth like that lying around?
("no" is a perfectly valid answer)
;-)
 
terdon
terdon
@Fabby You mean find all users that can login graphically?
 
Fabby
Fabby
Yup...
 
terdon
terdon
2:34 PM
I would guess that any user with a real login shell can do that. Root is a special case.
 
Fabby
Fabby
passwd?
 
terdon
terdon
@Fabby That's what I'm thinking
 
Fabby
Fabby
Yeah, but that's CLI stuiff: says nothing about GUI...
That's why I did the ls /home/*
:P
 
terdon
terdon
@Fabby Yes, but all of those could log in I think.
@Fabby And that's perfectly reasonable but misses many.
 
Fabby
Fabby
:D
Not on my system...
except the lost+found!
OK...
No worries!
 
terdon
terdon
2:37 PM
This might work: 
grep -f /etc/shells /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f1
@Fabby Yes, on your system too. You miss the login manager user and they most certainly run a GUI. You also miss various default users.
 
Fabby
Fabby
I'll think it over, I have 2 possibilities to look up users: passwd and shells
 
terdon
terdon
The thing I pasted above will look for any users in /etc/passwd that have valid login shells.
 
Fabby
Fabby
I didn't even know about /etc/shells!
Now I do!
 
terdon
terdon
So it will ignore any whose login is /bin/false or /usr/sbin/nologin or whatever
 
Fabby
Fabby
Indeed...
 
terdon
terdon
2:39 PM
That's probably a good proxy for users who can login.
 
Fabby
Fabby
Still no lightdm though (which is the user on the log-in screen...
but that I can handle... Now I know it is...
@terdon: Thank you for the lesson master!
;-)
 
terdon
terdon
Yes, lightdm specifically is ignored with that one. The shell is /bin/false. Same for the other login manager users. SO that won't work :(
 
Fabby
Fabby
I'll think up something! Not urgent anyway...
Thanks for the info you've already given me!
Anything else???
I need to make up for lost rep given to the bounty!
>:)
by then! C U in general room!
 
terdon
terdon
OK
 
ByteCommander
ByteCommander
@terdon I leave this room now too. My tabs are tidied up now and I will try if I can get my machine to suspend...
 

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