README.md

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

gnome-shell-extension-caffeine

• Fill the cup to inhibit auto suspend and screensaver
• This extension supports GNOME Shell 3.4 -> 42
  • master: 40 -> 42
  • gnome-shell-3.36-3.38: 3.36 -> 3.38
  • gnome-shell-3.32-3.34: 3.32 -> 3.34
  • gnome-shell-3.10-3.30: 3.10 -> 3.30
  • gnome-shell-before-3.10: 3.4 -> 3.8

Screenshots

• Empty cup = normal auto suspend and screensaver
• Filled cup = auto suspend and screensaver off

Installation from GNOME Extensions

• Get the extension here

Installation from source

make build
make install

• Restart the shell
• Enable the extension

CLI

• Get current state:

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

• Enable Caffeine:

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

• Disable Caffeine:

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

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