XSuspender Auto-suspend inactive X11 applications

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  • xsuspender

    :eyes: :computer: :zzz: :battery: Save battery by auto-suspending unfocused X11 applications.

  • https://github.com/kernc/xsuspender

    - Prevents pasting from clipboard while the selection source process is suspended …

    - Won't work in remote X sessions.

    - Won't work with Wayland.

    - Processes that take a long time to shut down after their window already disappears may be stopped in the middle of their termination routines.

  • system-tools

  • For Chrome, I wrote this simple script:

    https://github.com/albertz/system-tools/blob/master/bin/chro...

    This works also on MacOSX, and really saves quite some resources. Even with tab suspenders (The Great Suspender), Chrome still takes quite some resources.

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  • Mosh

    Mobile Shell

  • And that is probably mostly fine since HTTP is or is supposed to be stateless. IMAP by design can reconnect and one can work around SSH by using MOSH [1] in those cases which is stateless and great for lossy and/or mobile networks.

    [1] - https://mosh.org/

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