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No Sleep

by nightdevil00

Block suspend and hibernate so the system stays on with the screen off. The idle cycle (screensaver, lock, display off) keeps running normally.

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$ omarchy plugin add https://github.com/nightdevil00/white.nights --enable
System #bar #power-management

white.nights

An Omarchy shell plugin that blocks suspend and hibernate while leaving your normal idle cycle untouched: the screen still goes to the screensaver, locks, and turns off — the system just stays on underneath.

A white night is a summer night when the sun barely dips below the horizon and it never gets fully dark. Your machine stays awake all night, screen off.

white.nights bar toggle

What it does

  • Keeps the screensaver, lock, and display-off behavior exactly as configured (idle.screensaver / idle.lock in ~/.config/omarchy/shell.json).
  • Holds a systemd-inhibit --mode=block on sleep, handle-lid-switch, handle-suspend-key, and handle-hibernate-key while enabled, so suspend, hibernate, and lid-close sleep are refused.
  • Shows a bar toggle to flip it on and off whenever you like. The enabled state persists across reboots.

Perfect for downloads, rendering, servers, or leaving the machine on overnight without the screen burning.

Requirements

  • Omarchy (with the Quickshell-based shell and idle/lock plugins)
  • systemd-inhibit (part of systemd, always present)

Installation

Install straight from this repository with the Omarchy plugin installer. The command clones the repo into ~/.config/omarchy/plugins/, validates the manifest, and (with --enable) places the toggle in your bar:

omarchy plugin install https://github.com/nightdevil00/white.nights --enable

omarchy plugin install is an alias for omarchy plugin add.

If you would rather add it without enabling it right away, drop --enable:

omarchy plugin install https://github.com/nightdevil00/white.nights
# then, when you're ready:
omarchy plugin enable white.nights

The first time you enable it, sleep blocking is off. Turn it on with the bar icon or omarchy-shell no-sleep enable.

Usage

Click the monitor icon (󰍹) in the bar to toggle sleep blocking. When active the icon is highlighted and tooltips explain the state.

You can also control it from a terminal:

omarchy-shell no-sleep status      # current state
omarchy-shell no-sleep enable      # block suspend/hibernate
omarchy-shell no-sleep disable     # allow suspend/hibernate again
omarchy-shell no-sleep toggle      # flip the state

Verify the inhibitor is live with:

systemd-inhibit --list
# No Sleep (white.nights) ... mode=block

How it works

The plugin is a service + bar-widget pair:

  • Service.qml keeps a long-running systemd-inhibit process that holds a block inhibitor while the service is enabled. logind refuses every sleep request (suspend, hibernate, suspend-then-hibernate, hybrid) and ignores the lid/suspend keys while it is held. The state is persisted in ~/.local/state/omarchy/indicators/white.nights.
  • BarWidget.qml is the bar toggle that talks to the service.

Because sleep is blocked, logind never enters sleep, so Omarchy's pre-suspend lock (omarchy-sleep-lock.service) simply never fires — there is nothing to lock before. The screen still blanks through the normal idle → screensaver → lock path.

Notes

  • While enabled, systemctl suspend and friends fail with "Operation inhibited". That is the point — disable it when you actually want to sleep.
  • The block only lasts while the Omarchy shell is running. If you log out, the inhibitor is released and sleep behaves normally again.

Uninstall

omarchy plugin remove white.nights

License

MIT