---
name: "mate-session-inhibit"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "mate-session-manager"
version: "1.28.0-3"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/mate-session-inhibit"
---

# mate-session-inhibit(1)

inhibit mate-session functionality

## NAME

mate-session-inhibit - inhibit mate-session functionality

## SYNOPSIS

**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)](/systemd-inhibit/1.md)