caffeine-ng 3.5.1

System requirements

• Python 3.6 to 3.9 is required.

• caffeine-ng works with the following screensavers / screenlockers:

  • Anything that implements the org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver API (this includes KDE, amongst others)

  • gnome-screensaver

  • XSS

  • Xorg + DPMS

  • xautolock

  • xidlehook.

See setup.py for required python packages

Installation

To install Caffeine-ng please follow steps from appropriate chapter below

Generic 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

Debian and derivatives

First install all the required packages:

apt install python-docopt python-ewmh python-setproctitle python-wheel python-xdg

And mark them auto if you wish:

apt-mark auto python-docopt python-ewmh python-setproctitle python-wheel python-xdg

Then you need to build sources with:

make clean
make build

Create a package for your distribution:

checkinstall --pkgname=caffeine-ng --pkgversion=3.4 --requires="python-docopt \(\>=0.6.2\),python-ewmh \(\>=0.1.4\),python-setproctitle \(\>=1.1.10\),python-wheel \(\>=0.29.0\),python-xdg \(\>=0.25\)" --conflicts="caffeine" --nodoc python ./setup.py install --install-layout=deb

Replace version string with correct version and append this command with --install=no should you wish to inspect created package before installing it Replace python with python3 in package names above if you wish to build caffeine-ng with python 3

Replace python with python3 or python27 in checkinstall invocation to use specific python version to build caffeine-ng with

checkinstall is available for various distributions, so you may follow these steps adapting them to your distribution

ArchLinux

On ArchLinux, caffeine-ng is available at the AUR.

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) 2014-2018 Hugo Osvaldo Barrera <hugo@barrera.io>

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