/idle-suspend

Command line application to get X11 idle time and to suspending OS via send-dbus

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IDLE-SUSPEND

Command line application to get X11 idle time and to suspending OS via send-dbus. Ensure user have authority on org.freedesktop.upower.policy otherwise suspend won't work.

Author: Panji Kusuma epanji@gmail.com

Installation

Run these commands from source directory.

make build
sudo make install

Usages

Use watch for temporary activation.

watch -n 1 idle-suspend

Use crontab for permanent activation.

crontab -e

For user display :0.0, add this line and save it.

* * * * * env - DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/bin/idle-suspend &> /dev/null

By default, countdown time before suspend is 300 seconds. But, we can optionally add seconds argument as we wish.

...idle-suspend 600 ...

License

Public Domain