Braayy / gnome-shell-extension-caffeine

Disable screensaver and auto suspend

gnome-shell-extension-caffeine

Enable/Disable auto suspend with quick setting toggle.

⚠️ This extension is barely maintained anymore, new maintainers are welcome!

 

Version

This extension supports GNOME Shell 3.4 -> 43

Branch	Version	Compatible Gnome version
master	43	Gnome 43
gnome-shell-40-42	42	Gnome 40 -> 42
gnome-shell-3.36-3.38: 3.36	37	Gnome 3.36 -> 3.38
gnome-shell-3.32-3.34	33	Gnome 3.32 -> 3.34
gnome-shell-3.10-3.30	-	Gnome 3.10 -> 3.30
gnome-shell-before-3.10	-	Gnome 3.4 -> 3.8

 

Installation From source

make build
make install

• Restart the shell
• Enable the extension  

Screenshots & features

Scroll Indicator Icon

You can scroll on the indicator icon to enable / disable auto suspend:

• Scroll up -> Filled cup: Caffeine enabled
• Scroll down -> Empty cup: Caffeine disabled

Note: the option "Show status indicator" must be set on "always" (see below).  

Notifications

 

Timer option

This option enable Caffeine for a given amount of time (similar to Caffeine in LineageOS).

 

Preferences

CLI

• Get current state:

  gsettings --schemadir ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[e-mail]/schemas/ get org.gnome.shell.extensions.caffeine user-enabled

• Enable Caffeine:

  gsettings --schemadir ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[e-mail]/schemas/ set org.gnome.shell.extensions.caffeine user-enabled true

• Disable Caffeine:

  gsettings --schemadir ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[e-mail]/schemas/ set org.gnome.shell.extensions.caffeine user-enabled false

--schemadir — path to the extension schemas directory. It may be different on your system.