mate-session-inhibit(1)

mate-session-inhibit1

Inhibit mate-session functionality

Usage

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

Overview

mate-session-inhibit can inhibit certain mate-session functionality while executing the given COMMAND. To achieve this, it calls the Inhibit() method of the mate-session D-Bus API and creates an inhibitor. The inhibitor is automatically removed when mate-session-inhibit exits.

A typical use case is to prevent the session from going idle (and thus locking the screen) while a movie player is running.

Options

-h, --help

print help and exit

--version

print version information and exit

--app-id ID

The application id to use when calling the mate-session Inhibit() method. If this option is not specified, "unknown" is used.

--reason REASON

A human-readable reason to pass along when calling the mate-session Inhibit() method. If this option is not specified, "not specified" is used.

--inhibit ARG

ARG specifies the things to inhibit, as a colon-separated list. The possible values are logout, switch-user, suspend, idle, automount. If this option is used more than once, the values are combined. If this option is not specified, "idle" is assumed.

Releases

6 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 9
  2. 10
  3. 11
  4. 12
  5. 13
  6. Arch

From mate-session-manager 1.28.0-3 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.