Caffeinate: Keep computer awake (Block sreensaver, lockscreen when presenting or long running tasks)

[sspaeti]

What do you need?

When I have a presentation, or if I want to run a long running backup without the system to sleep, lock or turn on screen saver, on MacOS I had an app Lungo, but there are many others like Caffeinate, etc.

Also when I run a Google Meet meeting, after a couple of time, my screen will freeze, get black for 4-6 seconds, and then go back (for the participans on the other end, my video freezes quickly. Audio works always). It feels like the screen saver interupts (as I might not have moved anything) - but I not 100%. So I'd like to have an awakening SW to try this.

I was wondering, what is the best way to do this in Omarchy?

Here some options I found when I researched, but not sure what's the best way we should use? I'm sure many are doing already something like this manually?

Options

pkill hypridle  # disable
hypridle &      # re-enable

or systemd-inhibit as said on reddit?

systemd-inhibit --what=idle --who=Caffeine --why=Caffeine --mode=block sleep inf

Or caffeine-ng (GUI app, most Mac-like)

yay -S caffeine-ng

My first attempt

I tried something with small shell script sspaeti/dotfiles@c0ee87d - not sure if that is correct, but I will revert how it's going over the next weeks. But just a showcase how I'd like to use it. But I'm sure you know better ways?

❯ caffeinate status
Caffeinate is not active
❯ caffeinate 30
Caffeinate enabled for 30 minutes
❯ caffeinate status
Caffeinate is currently active:
sspaeti   104802  0.0  0.0  16032  6652 pts/40   S    09:18   0:00 systemd-inhibit --what=sleep:idle:handle-lid-switch sleep 1800
❯ caffeinate status
❯ caffeinate off
Caffeinate disabled
❯ caffeinate status
Caffeinate is not active

[killeik]

Hi! There is already a script and keybind that does this :D
https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/blob/master/bin/omarchy-toggle-idle

It's also already bound to the keybinding:

default/hypr/bindings/utilities.conf:
23:bindd = SUPER CTRL, I, Toggle locking on idle, exec, omarchy-toggle-idle

[sspaeti]

Hi! There is already a script and keybind that does this :D master/bin/omarchy-toggle-idle

It's also already bound to the keybinding:

default/hypr/bindings/utilities.conf:
23:bindd = SUPER CTRL, I, Toggle locking on idle, exec, omarchy-toggle-idle

This is amazing, I didn't even notice. Thanks for mentioning it. Does this avoid the screensaver as well? And everything e.g. when a long-running task is in the background or during a meeting? Did you test that?

If this works, this can be closed, except if we want to add the option to disable for X minutes, which is what I usually use.

[killeik]

Yes, this script kills hypridle. It's hypridle that invokes omarchy-launch-screensaver, lock-screen and screen offs.

I also personally changed the timings in $HOME/.config/hypr/hypridle.conf because for me, 2.5 minutes before screensaver is too fast on pc.

[sspaeti]

Oh, this is great. Then I will close this issue, and anybody who wants the 30 minutes to turn off or similar can check above script at https://github.com/sspaeti/dotfiles/blob/8521da38db20b5ff1ffa66703b63a353cbb81c79/zsh/.dotfiles/helpers/bin/caffeinate#L9.

[crmne]

Would be great to have this script by default in Omarchy and perhaps even in the menus!

[sspaeti]

Would be great to have this script by default in Omarchy and perhaps even in the menus!

Yeah, I thought the above one was enough, but I noticed I always have the need to unlock for a period of time, never forever, as I'm afraid of forgetting to turn it off.

I am reopening this, and letting people chime in on whether I should add a PR for it. Also, if people have better suggestions than then my claude-code version of it: https://github.com/sspaeti/dotfiles/blob/8521da38db20b5ff1ffa66703b63a353cbb81c79/zsh/.dotfiles/helpers/bin/caffeinate#L9

[frob]

It would be nice to be able to put this into the waybar

[iop098321qwe]

I believe this is currently in the menu under Trigger > Toggle > Idle Lock.

[sspaeti]

I believe this is currently in the menu under Trigger > Toggle > Idle Lock.

[...] except if we want to add the option to disable for X minutes, which is what I usually use.

Yes, simply toggle it, but only the X minutes is not, which is how I use it. I don't idle unlimited, I always know, OK, I need two hours now for this task, and then I idle for 2 hours. So that would be the only addition, but yeah, easy to just add using the linked script.