Is this useful?
https://github.com/rodlie/powerkit
Not affiliated and haven't used it, but its tagline of "Desktop Independent Power Manager" seems like it fits the bill.
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Is this useful?
https://github.com/rodlie/powerkit
Not affiliated and haven't used it, but its tagline of "Desktop Independent Power Manager" seems like it fits the bill.
Thankyou. I will have a look at this and possibly test it in a vm first to see how it works
Those are both things that a window manager doesnt really do. I havent used i3 much but ill try to point you in the right directions.
For caffeine, depending on your bar, i believe most of them have modules for that.
Then for locking/shutting down, you'd want to look at i3lock, xautolock, xidlehook, and probably many others. Can't guide you to the right commands, but this forum thread seems to have a lot of the info you're looking for: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=208699
Thankyou. For locking i have i3lock but i havent got round to customising it yet so i still have the defaults and my bar is polybar which has a has some customisation. Ill see if i can find a caffeine moduke to add to it