caffeine-ng 3.3.4

A status bar application able to temporarily prevent the activation of both the screensaver and the "sleep" powersaving mode.

Caffeine is a little daemon that sits in you systray, and prevents the screensaver from showing up, or the systems from going to sleep. It does so when an application is fullscreened (eg: youtube), or when you click on the systray icon (which you can do, when, eg: reading).

This is a fork of [Caffeine 2.4](http://launchpad.net/caffeine/), since later versions dropped support for the systray icon in favour of only automatic detection of fullscreen apps only, which resulted rather [controversial](https://bugs.launchpad.net/caffeine/+bug/1321750).

The intention of this fork is to also evolve on its own, not only fixing issues, but also implemented missing features, when relevant.

Caffeine-ng was shortly know as Taurine, a play on its successor’s name, since taurine is a known stimulant, commonly found in energy drinks. However, this name did not last, since the artwork would not match adequately, and changing it was undesirable.

System requirements

• Either a screensaver that implements the org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver API (this includes KDE, amongst others) API, gnome-screensaver, XSS and/or DPMS, xautolock.

• Python 3

See requirements.txt for required python packages

Installation

To manually install caffeine-ng, run:

python setup.py build sudo python setup.py install sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

Or pre-packaged:

• On ArchLinux, caffeine-ng is available at the [AUR](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/caffeine-ng/)

To have Caffeine-ng run on startup, add it to your System Settings => Startup Programs list.

License

Copyright (C) 2009 The Caffeine Developers Copyright (C) 2014 Hugo Osvaldo Barrera <[e-mail]>

Caffeine-ng is distributed under the GNU General Public License, either version 3, or (at your option) any later version. See GPL for details.

The Caffeine-ng status icons are Copyright (C) 2014 mildmojo (http://github.com/mildmojo), and distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, either version 3, or (at your option) any later version. See LGPL.

The Caffeien-ng SVG shortcut icons are Copyright (C) 2009 Tommy Brunn (http://www.blastfromthepast.se/blabbermouth), and distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, either version 3, or (at your option) any later version. See LGPL.

Hacking

To run: `./bin/caffeine` To compile translations: `./update_translations`

If you want to test out a translation without changing the language for the whole session: “LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 ./bin/caffeine” (Replace ru_RU.UTF-8 with whatever language you want to use. You will need to a language pack for the specific language) Be aware that some stock items will not be translated unless you log in with a given language.