/nonsleep-screen

A simple GUI program written in C to toggle screen sleep inhibition on Ubuntu Desktop.

Primary LanguageC

nonsleep-screen

This is a simple GTK-based program written in C that allows you to toggle sleep inhibition (preventing the screen from automatically turning off) on Ubuntu Desktop.

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Requirements

  • GTK 3 development libraries
    • Install via: sudo apt update && sudo apt install libgtk-3-dev

What It Does (simple!)

  • Provides a small window with:
    • A button to toggle sleep inhibition on and off.
    • A label showing the current status of sleep inhibition, displayed in bold and color:
      • Green text for "Enabled"
      • Red text for "Disabled"

Build and Run

  1. Build the Program
    Run make in the project directory to compile the program into main.out.

  2. Run the Program
    Execute the program with:

    ./main.out

  3. (Optional) If you want to register the compiled binary as an application for your Ubuntu Desktop, run ./register_as_app.sh with a root(sudo) permission. It eliminates the need of manually opening the terminal, finding the path of main.out of this project, and manually run.

    sudo ./register_as_app.sh