xidlehook
GitLab: https://gitlab.com/jD91mZM2/xidlehook (by jD91mZM2)
rot8
screen rotation daemon (by efernau)
xidlehook | rot8 | |
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6 | 5 | |
370 | 101 | |
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0.0 | 6.2 | |
about 1 year ago | about 1 month ago | |
Rust | Rust | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
xidlehook
Posts with mentions or reviews of xidlehook.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-26.
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How do you configure screen dimming for AC and Battery without XFCE4-power-manager?
With xidlehook you can do that:
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screensaver activate over vlc if i am watching something
You can use xautolock, or xidlehook
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Off the screen after locking then suspend
Try xidlehook. Use the script given in README.
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Laptop screen sleeps even when watching videos/movies
https://github.com/jD91mZM2/xidlehook :)
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Lockscreen written in Rust
Not sure if you've seen xidlehook but it works well and is also written rust. I see it hasn't been updated in a while, maybe it can inspire you.
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Dim brightness before sleep with DPMS
Could likely use https://github.com/jD91mZM2/xidlehook to dim it just before suspend, then watch xprintidle until it goes below 1000 to show that you're active again, and bring the brightness up
rot8
Posts with mentions or reviews of rot8.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-08.
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I've created an AUR package for Gnome mutter with screen auto-rotation fixed
I won't use this since I use Sway WM with rot8 for screen rotation but it's nice to know this exists.
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wvkbd: On-screen keyboard for wlroots
I use this with rot8 for my Thinkpad Yoga when it's in tablet mode.
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Is the Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 260 12.5-inch fully Linux compatible.
Rotation daemon: rot8 On-screen keyboard: wvkbd
- Device rotation on Arch?
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Sway Tablet Mode with BMAX Y13 (convertible notebook)
You may want to have a look at, and possibly using, https://github.com/efernau/rot8
What are some alternatives?
When comparing xidlehook and rot8 you can also consider the following projects:
betterlockscreen - 🍀 sweet looking lockscreen for linux system
kde-auto-rotate - Autorotate the display & pointers on a convertible laptop
kime - Korean IME
penrose - Create beautiful diagrams just by typing notation in plain text.
wvkbd - On-screen keyboard for wlroots
penrose - A library for writing an X11 tiling window manager
i3-focus-last
wired-notify - Lightweight notification daemon with highly customizable layout blocks, written in Rust.
swayws - a sway workspace manager which allows easy moving of workspaces to and from outputs
kitkat - Kit-kat clock utility rewritten in Rust using minifb
steam-deck-scripts - Simple scripts to use on your Steam Deck