xscreensaver-caffeine-rs

Tray icon to give caffeine to xscreensaver, written in Rust. A tray icon desktop indicator ‘xscreensaver-caffeine-rs’ supplies a manual toggle to prevent xscreensaver to start.

Installation

From package

sudo dpkg -i xscreensaver-caffeine-rs_1.0.2-1_all.deb

From git

# install dependency
sudo apt update && sudo apt install libdbus-1-dev

git clone https://github.com/darkfrank-it/xscreensaver-caffeine-rs.git
cd xscreensaver-caffeine-rs

cargo build --release

Manual run:

xscreensaver-caffeine-rs

To run automaticcally at boot

Add the desktop file from /usr/share/applications/xscreensaver-caffeine-rs.desktop to the settings of your DE or add a link in autostart folder es:

ln -s /usr/share/applications/xscreensaver-caffeine-rs.desktop /home/$USER/.config/autostart/xscreensaver-caffeine-rs.desktop

Uninstall

sudo apt remove xscreensaver-caffeine-rs