I am trying to create a snippet that prevents Linux machines running Gnome to go into standby mode. The functionality I am trying to implement comes from this little Python script below. Getting this to work in perl can't be that hard although getting this dbus stuff to work is trickier then I thought.... I have no idea what I am doing.
Anyway, the result will go into a community plugin for Squeezecenter an open platform that has it's software written in Perl. So i guess it's all for a good cause.... This is the piece of reference code from the official Gnome-Power-Manager website wiki that explains what I want to do. 
#!/usr/bin/python
import dbus
bus = dbus.Bus(dbus.Bus.TYPE_SESSION)
devobj = bus.get_object('org.gnome.PowerManager', '/org/gnome/PowerMan
+ager')
dev = dbus.Interface(devobj, "org.gnome.PowerManager")
cookie = dev.Inhibit('Nautilus', 'Copying files')
#do something 
dev.UnInhibit(cookie)

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and this is what I thought it should look like in perl. 
use Net::DBus;

#get the session bus
my $bus = Net::DBus->session;

#Get the Gnome power manager object === Wrong!!!
my $devobj = $bus->get_object("/org/gnome/PowerManager", "org.gnome.Po
+werManager");

#Get the interface === Wrong!!!
my $dev = $bus->Interface($devobj,"org.gnome.PowerManager");

my $cookie = $dev->Inhibit("Squeezecenter", "Playing");
.... more code
$dev->UnInhibit($cookie);

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In reply to Anyone speak dbus? by Nazz

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