Bash does not suspend/cancel pm-suspend

theKbStockpiler · 11-02-2012, 03:44 PM

I have Gnome 2.32.1 which is lack luster and does not have a suspend GUI for a specified amount of time, just suspend. Lets say I run

Quote:

echo 'pm-suspend' | at now + 5 minutes

and change my mind. control-c and control-z have no effect. Why is this?

Thanks in advance!

hunternet93 · 11-05-2012, 02:37 PM

The "at" command runs in the background, so it won't receive any keystrokes like Ctrl-C and Ctrl-Z. You can stop it by finding the job number at gives you when you schedule the job and cancel the job by typing "atrm <job #>". If you look in GNOME's power options you should be able to have the computer suspend after a period of inactivity, which might do what you want also.