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QEMU 10.1 Released with TDX Support, Many RISC-V and ARM Improvements

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Stimulator keeps your computer awake

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Aug 07, 2025

Quoting: Stimulator keeps your computer awake - LinuxLinks —

Stimulator prevents the desktop environment (DE) from sleeping. It should work regardless of the used DE thanks to the Inhibit portal.

It uses Gtk.Application.inhibit (Suspend) which internally uses org.freedesktop.portal.Inhibit which should work across DEs that supports it. For disabling screen blanking/locking, it uses org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver.Inhibit and fallsback to Gtk.Application.inhibit (Idle) if its not supported.

This is free and open source software.

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