Inhibit¶

Description¶

Portal for inhibiting session transitions

This simple interface lets sandboxed applications inhibit the user session from ending, suspending, idling or getting switched away.

This documentation describes version 3 of this interface.

Properties¶

org.freedesktop.portal.Inhibit:version¶

version readable u

Methods¶

org.freedesktop.portal.Inhibit.Inhibit¶

Inhibit (
  IN window s,
  IN flags u,
  IN options a{sv},
  OUT handle o
)

Inhibits a session status changes. To remove the inhibition, call org.freedesktop.portal.Request.Close on the returned handle.

The flags determine what changes are inhibited:

1: Logout
2: User Switch
4: Suspend
8: Idle

Supported keys in the options vardict include:

handle_token (s)

A string that will be used as the last element of the handle. Must be a valid object path element. See the Request documentation for more information about the handle.
reason (s)

User-visible reason for the inhibition.

window: Identifier for the window
flags: Flags identifying what is inhibited
options: Vardict with optional further information
handle: Object path for the Request object representing this call

org.freedesktop.portal.Inhibit.CreateMonitor¶

CreateMonitor (
  IN window s,
  IN options a{sv},
  OUT handle o
)

Creates a monitoring session. While this session is active, the caller will receive StateChanged signals with updates on the session state.

A successfully created session can at any time be closed using org.freedesktop.portal.Session::Close, or may at any time be closed by the portal implementation, which will be signalled via org.freedesktop.portal.Session::Closed.

Supported keys in the options vardict include:

handle_token (s)

A string that will be used as the last element of the handle. Must be a valid object path element. See the Request documentation for more information about the handle.
session_handle_token (s)

A string that will be used as the last element of the session handle. Must be a valid object path element. See the Session documentation for more information about the session handle.

The following results get returned via the org.freedesktop.portal.Request::Response signal:

session_handle (o)

The session handle. An object path for the Session object representing the created session.

This method was added in version 2 of this interface.

window: the parent window
options: Vardict with optional further information
handle: Object path for the Request object representing this call

org.freedesktop.portal.Inhibit.QueryEndResponse¶

QueryEndResponse (
  IN session_handle o
)

Acknowledges that the caller received the org.freedesktop.portal.Inhibit::StateChanged signal. This method should be called within one second or receiving a StateChanged signal with the ‘Query End’ state.

Since version 3.

session_handle: Object path for the Session object

Signals¶

org.freedesktop.portal.Inhibit::StateChanged¶

StateChanged (
  session_handle o,
  state a{sv}
)

The StateChanged signal is sent to active monitoring sessions when the session state changes.

When the session state changes to ‘Query End’, clients with active monitoring sessions are expected to respond by calling org.freedesktop.portal.Inhibit.QueryEndResponse within a second of receiving the StateChanged signal. They may call org.freedesktop.portal.Inhibit.Inhibit first to inhibit logout, to prevent the session from proceeding to the Ending state.

The following information may get returned in the state vardict:

screensaver-active (b)

Whether the screensaver is active.
session-state (u)

The state of the session. This member is new in version 3.
- 1: Running
- 2: Query End
- 3: Ending

session_handle: Object path for the Session object
state: Vardict with information about the session state