# mate-session-inhibit

mate-session-inhibit

1 User Commands

mate-session-inhibit

inhibit mate-session functionality

    mate-session-inhibit
    OPTION
    COMMAND

## Description

`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.

## See also

systemd-inhibit

1