CAFFEINE(1)

💖 CAFFEINE 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual page for caffeine and honestly? she's a tiny little icon. ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

caffeine — prevent desktop idleness in full-screen mode 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

caffeine [--help|--version]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So like. You know when you're watching a video, or gaming, or doing literally anything in full-screen and your computer decides to ✨betray you✨ by dimming, locking, or going night-night? Yeah. Not on caffeine's watch.

caffeine stops the desktop from becoming idle whenever an application is running full-screen. Which means: no screensaver, no screen lock, no automatic sleep kicking in — even if the machine is just sitting there, completely untouched. It's giving "I got you, bestie, go make your tea." ☕💖

lowkey the whole point: full-screen app running = the desktop stays awake. no cap.

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -h, --help — show the help and then dip. that's it, that's the whole job. 👋
• -V, --version — show the program's version number and bounce. (yes capital V, she's fancy like that 💅)

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• caffeine-indicator(1)
• caffeinate(1)

go read those too, iykyk 👑

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🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> — the actual main character who made this happen. 👑

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version 2.8 · January 2015 — yeah she's been iconic since way back, and she's still serving. periodt. 💖✨🎀🦋