Can Fedora Workstation be configured so SSH logins inhibit suspend?

[mattdm (Matthew Miller)]

Continuing the discussion from Talk: GNOME suspends after 15 minutes of user inactivity, even on AC power:

@kparal

SSH sessions are not counted as user activity. I’ve updated the issue description.

Is it possible to configure systemd-login (or something?) so SSH logins on the system (from remote hosts) inhibit suspend?

Bonus points for incoming mosh sessions…

[computersavvy (Jeff V)]

To add to that, the problem suspends a system even when a server is active with no currently active connections. I use plexmediaserver which runs 24x7, and obviously does not have demand that entire 24 hours. The system goes into suspension and is not reachable from a client without manually waking it up locally. Database servers run on the workstation may have the same issue though I have not tested that.

[mattdm (Matthew Miller)]

I think in this case, one should simply configure the system to not suspend. (Or, install or swap to Fedora Server?)

I don’t think we’d necessarily want inhibit-suspend generally as the default just when running certain services, though. I might want to have postgress running on my laptop for local development and still have the system suspend.

[computersavvy (Jeff V)]

@mattdm

I think in this case, one should simply configure the system to not suspend. (Or, install or swap to Fedora Server?)

I agree, but the issue I commented on is that I was not aware of any warning that may have been distributed about the upcoming change with auto-suspend being enabled.

I have found how to disable suspend but the lack of information is frustrating.

No advance notice and no publicized work-around as preparation for the change.

[mattdm (Matthew Miller)]

I agree — in retrospect, this clearly should have gone in the release notes at a minimum. But here we are now, and time only goes the one direction.

[sampsonf (Sampson Fung)]

100% agreed that time only travel in one direction.

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Just hope that each new release will be much better than the previous release from now on.

[sampsonf (Sampson Fung)]

Knowing how to completely disable Suspend and Hibernation is good.

What I really want is:

1. Having Suspend / Hibernation and Wake up on LAN/Mouse/Keyboard/Power-button working
2. Assign “Servers” to no-suspend list - that is, when there are SSH daemon runing with active activities (network traffic minimum), then the system will not interrupt the tasks running
3. Assign “Applications” to no-suspend list - that is, when I opened a SSH client session to a remote server, with regular heart-beat to avoid time out, then my system should not suspend. (as if my SSH client suspends, the heart-beat is broken, then the server might kill my “active” session due to inactivities or even suspend as a result.)

[kinghat]

wound up here trying to figure out if i can make it so if i a VM is running(using cockpit interface) my workstation will not suspend the session(plasma).