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Topic: sleep mode after a few minutes of inactivity

Is there a simple way, like a bash script or something similar, to make the computer go into sleep mode after a few minutes of inactivity?

2 Reply by anthk (edited by anthk 2025-01-22 14:43:24)

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Re: sleep mode after a few minutes of inactivity

You can do it with xidle, doas and zzz 

 
xidle -timeout 120 -program 'doas zzz' &

For easyness, you can place that at ~/.xinitrc, above the  last line you would put to start the window manager, such as 'exec icewm-session':  

 

xidle -timeout 120 -program 'doas zzz' & 

exec icewm-session

 

You need to add yourself to the 'power' group.

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Re: sleep mode after a few minutes of inactivity

Thank you very much, I will try it

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Re: sleep mode after a few minutes of inactivity

After several attempts I managed to get it working.

xidle -program "/usr/bin/doas zzz" -timeout 7200 &

5 Reply by gnu (edited by gnu 2025-01-24 01:16:48)

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Re: sleep mode after a few minutes of inactivity

Xidle has a problem when the machine wakes up, after a few seconds it goes back to sleep mode, so I found this solution with Xautolock.

xidle -program "/usr/bin/xtrlock" -timeout 300 &
xautolock -time 30 -locker "/usr/bin/doas zzz" -detectsleep &