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                 <title>Description</title>
 
                 <para><command>systemd-inhibit</command> may be used
-                to execute a program with a shutdown, suspend or idle
+                to execute a program with a shutdown, sleep or idle
                 inhibitor lock taken. The lock will be acquired before
                 the specified command line is executed and released
                 afterwards.</para>
 
                 <para>Inhibitor locks may be used to block or delay
-                suspend and shutdown requests from the user, as well
-                as automatic idle handling of the OS. This may be used
+                system sleep and shutdown requests from the user, as well
+                as automatic idle handling of the OS. This is useful
                 to avoid system suspends while an optical disc is
                 being recorded, or similar operations that should not
                 be interrupted.</para>
+
+                <para>For more information see the <ulink
+                url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/inhibit">Inhibitor
+                Lock Developer Documentation</ulink>.</para>
         </refsect1>
 
         <refsect1>
@@ -80,7 +84,7 @@
 
                 <variablelist>
                         <varlistentry>
-                                <term><option>--h</option></term>
+                                <term><option>-h</option></term>
                                 <term><option>--help</option></term>
 
                                 <listitem><para>Prints a short help
                         <varlistentry>
                                 <term><option>--what=</option></term>
 
-                                <listitem><para>Takes a colon
-                                separated list of one or more
+                                <listitem><para>Takes a colon-separated
+                                list of one or more
                                 operations to inhibit:
                                 <literal>shutdown</literal>,
-                                <literal>suspend</literal>,
-                                <literal>idle</literal>, for
-                                inhibiting reboot/power-off/halt/kexec,
-                                suspending/hibernating, resp. the
-                                automatic idle
-                                detection.</para></listitem>
+                                <literal>sleep</literal>,
+                                <literal>idle</literal>,
+                                <literal>handle-power-key</literal>,
+                                <literal>handle-suspend-key</literal>,
+                                <literal>handle-hibernate-key</literal>,
+                                <literal>handle-lid-switch</literal>,
+                                for inhibiting
+                                reboot/power-off/halt/kexec,
+                                suspending/hibernating, the automatic
+                                idle detection, or the low-level
+                                handling of the power/sleep key and
+                                the lid switch, respectively. If omitted,
+                                defaults to
+                                <literal>idle:sleep:shutdown</literal>.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
                                 <term><option>--who=</option></term>
 
-                                <listitem><para>Takes a short human
-                                readable descriptive string for the
-                                program taking the lock. If not passed
+                                <listitem><para>Takes a short,
+                                human-readable descriptive string for the
+                                program taking the lock. If not passed,
                                 defaults to the command line
                                 string.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
                         <varlistentry>
                                 <term><option>--why=</option></term>
 
-                                <listitem><para>Takes a short human
-                                readable descriptive string for the
+                                <listitem><para>Takes a short,
+                                human-readable descriptive string for the
                                 reason for taking the lock. Defaults
                                 to "Unknown reason".</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
                                 <literal>delay</literal> is used, the
                                 lock can only delay the requested
                                 operations for a limited time. If the
-                                time elapses the lock is ignored and
+                                time elapses, the lock is ignored and
                                 the operation executed. The time limit
                                 may be specified in
-                                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-logind.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para></listitem>
+                                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-logind.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>. Note
+                                that <literal>delay</literal> is only
+                                available for <literal>sleep</literal>
+                                and
+                                <literal>shutdown</literal>.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
                                 inhibition locks instead of acquiring
                                 one.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
-
-
                 </variablelist>
 
         </refsect1>
                 <para>Returns the exit status of the executed program.</para>
         </refsect1>
 
+        <refsect1>
+                <title>Example</title>
+
+                <programlisting># systemd-inhibit wodim foobar.iso</programlisting>
+
+                <para>This burns the ISO image
+                <filename>foobar.iso</filename> on a CD using
+                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>wodim</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+                and inhibits system sleeping, shutdown and idle while
+                doing so.</para>
+        </refsect1>
+
         <refsect1>
                 <title>See Also</title>
                 <para>