Caffeine 0.3 for linux released.
- August 26th, 2009
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UPDATE: Caffeine 1.0 is out, read the details.
The Caffeine developers (Brad Smith, Tommy Brunn, and me) are pleased to announce the 0.3 release of Caffeine, the program that sits in your notification area allowing you to quickly and temporarily prevent your computer from screen saving or “sleeping”. Several important features that are new to 0.3,
- XScreensaver and DPMS support.
- Command line options, handy if you want to use Caffeine with shell scripts.
- i18n support, Caffeine has been translated into several languages and translators can easily translate add more translations on launchpad
You won’t see the difference, but the code has been mostly re-written and is now much more readable and maintainable.
Installing
From the ppa (recommended):
If you are using Ubuntu 9.04:
sudo bash -c "echo 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/caffeine-developers/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list"
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 569113AE
If you are using Ubuntu 9.10:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:caffeine-developers/ppa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install caffeine
Other installation options including debs are here.
Screenshots
The Caffeine icon, deactivated.
The Caffeine tray icon, activated.
Timed activation.
Timed activation has been cancelled.
Caffeine in Swedish.
After copying/pasting the 2 first statements (replacing >> by >> because I get an error if I don’t), I get an error when using apt-get: malformed line in /etc/apt/sources.list.
That’s how the new line in sources.list look like: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/caffeine-developers/ppa/ubuntu main
I erased that line, so I can use apt-get again, but I’d like to install Caffeine… What’s wrong?
My bad, I forgot to put “jaunty” in there before main. I have fixed this and updated the post.
Thank you!