2010/1/19 Christian Rüb <[email protected]>: > On Tuesday, 19. January 2010 04:31:10 Robin Paulson wrote: >> hi, >> several times when i've been using my om to make gps tracks, i've >> forgotten to turn off auto-suspend, and have lost part of the track i >> was logging >> >> would it be possible to add options to the gps section of shr-settings which >> (a) in the case where tracks are being logged, the machine is >> prevented from suspending entirely and, > > I think this would be difficult - how would you detect for any application if > it is just writing a track log? > IMHO this should either be done by the application (request CPU) or as a > workaround you set it with fsoraw in the corresponding desktop file.
this is correct, you're dead right. marcus, would it be possible to incorporate this into a future release of tangogps? > If you are doing in a desktop file, your phone will never suspend though as > long as the app is running. yes, that's intended > >> (b) in the case where gps is being used but no log being made, the >> phone is suspended while the gps remains active? >> >> thanks > i think this could be an OS level option, perhaps in shr-settings/position. i recall there was an option, maybe in the gps interface, that specifically provided for this? shr/fso devs, any chance it could be included? cheers _______________________________________________ Shr-User mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-user
