Prevent mac from sleep but allow screen saver?

[FezVrasta]

I'd like to prevent my Mac from going in sleep mode but I do want to allow my mac to enable the screen saver to prevent problems to my screen.

Caffeine doesn't allow it, what about KYA?

Thanks

PS; Sorry, with screen saver, I mean allowing my screen from turning off.

[e40]

+1 as well. I want the effect of caffeinate -s. If the command line to caffeinate could be customized, then we'd all be happy!

[e40]

It's not official, but I did this and it's working fine for me:

e40@dcf7e5e

Of course, I'd love to see the feature in the official version as an option or preference. This is just to tide me over.

[jeffbyrnes]

👍

[alexandreleroux]

Doesn't this already works? With KYA 1.3.1 enabled, I can launch MacOS X's screensaver from the hot corner and let it go indefinitely. That doesn't work for you? If it does work, then we can close this ticket. Cheers -- Alex

[FezVrasta]

I'm talking about the automatic screensaver

[alexandreleroux]

Thanks for the precision

[copumpkin]

👍

Basically, expose the flexibility that caffeinate exposes, or at least let the screen sleep without the computer turning off.

[newmarcel]

OK you convinced me 😀, I will expose an advanced preference to allow the screen saver to activate (caffeinate -s). 👍

I schedule this pref with the upcoming v1.4 release.

This will also solve #12.

Thanks!

[e40]

VERY NICE! Thank you!

[newmarcel]

This feature landed in master. To test it, checkout and build master, go to "Preferences…" > "Advanced" and check "Allow the display to sleep" (and restart the app if needed). This just wraps caffeinate -s

[FezVrasta]

Thanks :) It will save the life of a lot of screens!

[copumpkin]

Awesome, thanks!

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[danechitoaie]

Any idea when new version would be released with this new feature?

[newmarcel]

Good question. Since I feel good about the current state of master I will start the beta cycle this weekend with 1.4.0beta1. You can then test the new features and report any bugs here.

[newmarcel]

Here you go, 1.4.0beta1 is live: https://github.com/newmarcel/KeepingYouAwake/releases/tag/1.4beta1

You can find the toggle in Preferences… -> Advanced -> Allow the display to sleep.

[e40]

Works great. THANK YOU.

[alexandreleroux]

This issue should be closed, now that it's part of release 1.4.0, agreed?

[copumpkin]

Is caffeinate -s really the option we want here? I think what I'm looking for is -i without -d, which should prevent the computer from sleeping without preventing the displaying from sleeping.

The documentation for -s says:

 -s      Create an assertion to prevent the system from sleeping. This assertion is valid only when system is running on AC power.

Which basically means that when I select the KeepingYouAwake "Allow the display to sleep" mode, my machine will go to sleep when I'm not plugged in. I think -i would achieve the desired goal while still keeping my machine awake when not plugged in.

Alternately, could you just expose the underlying command-line options?

[NeckBeardPrince]

@copumpkin Okay, I was wondering why the hell my laptop just went to sleep while I had this option selected. Yeah @newmarcel this breaks the app from doing what it should be doing.

[alokdhir]

What happened to this? I am on 1.5 and there is no option to 'Allow display to sleep'.

[electric-art]

As mentioned above by @copumpkin and in issue #138, this should actually be possible using -i with caffinate - any chance of please implementing this @newmarcel ? Allowing the display to automatically sleep would go a long way to help reduce energy usage in our environment. @ @ #138