MATE-SESSION-INHIB(1)

✨ MATE-SESSION-INHIB ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the mate-session-inhibit page — this is the User Commands manual, and honestly? it's a little legend. it's a whole tool whose entire job is telling your session to chill out and not do the thing while you're busy. 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

mate-session-inhibit — inhibit mate-session functionality 🫶

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

mate-session-inhibit [OPTION...] {COMMAND}

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so like, mate-session-inhibit can inhibit certain mate-session functionality while it's executing the given COMMAND. literally while your command is running, the session is on pause for whatever you asked it to pause. periodt. ✋

the way it does this? it calls the Inhibit() method of the mate-session D-Bus API and creates an inhibitor. and here's the slay part — that inhibitor is automatically removed when mate-session-inhibit exits. no cleanup, no mess, no notes. it just knows. 🧚

a typical use case, iykyk: preventing the session from going idle (and thus locking the screen 😭) while a movie player is running. imagine your screen locking mid-movie. not on my watch. 🍓

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -h, --help — print help and exit. your little map of everything. 🗺️
• --version — print version information and exit. who are you, what era are you from. 👑
• --app-id ID — the application id to use when calling the mate-session Inhibit() method. if you don't specify this one, "unknown" is used. it's giving mystery. 🙈
• --reason REASON — a human-readable reason to pass along when calling the mate-session Inhibit() method. if you skip it, "not specified" is used. so like, tell them why, bestie, they're asking nicely. 💬
• --inhibit ARG — ARG specifies the things to inhibit, as a colon-separated list. the possible values are logout, switch-user, suspend, idle, automount. if you use this option more than once, the values are combined (stacking, we love to see it ✨). if you don't specify it at all, "idle" is assumed. 👑

ngl the defaults are doing a lot of heavy lifting here — no --inhibit means "idle", no --app-id means "unknown", no --reason means "not specified". the tool is very forgiving. a supportive icon fr fr. 🫶

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

systemd-inhibit(1) — the cousin. the other one. go say hi. 👋

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and that's the page, bestie!! this came to you from the mate-session source, page MATE-SESSION-INHIB(1) — go forth and inhibit responsibly, mwah 💅💖🌈