caffeine-ng 4.0.0

History

Caffeing-ng (since 2014) started as a fork of Caffeine 2.4, since the original version dropped support for the systray icon in favour of only automatic detection of fullscreen apps only, which turned to be a rather controversial decision.

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

• 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

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

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

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

make clean
make build

checkinstall --pkgname=caffeine-ng --pkgversion=3.4 --requires="python-click \(\>=0.6.2\),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

Auto-start

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) 2014-2022 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.