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How to reach Caffeine settings

Puh

11/14/22, 1:12 PM

According to https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Caffeine/ there should appear a settings dialog, after rightclicking the Caffeine symbol. That does not work for me with Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS and Caffeine 2.9.4 How can I reach the settings?

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heynnema

11/14/22, 1:45 PM

Choose Einstellungen from the drop down menu.

Puh

11/15/22, 2:20 PM

I`d like to do so, but it doesn`t show up in the dropdown menu. I only get Deactivate/Activate, Info, Beenden.

heynnema

11/15/22, 2:22 PM

See https://bugs-launchpad-net.translate.goog/caffeine/+bug/1700419?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=ajax,se,elem

N0rbert

11/15/22, 2:35 PM

@Puh, please make actual screenshot from your Ubuntu version and insert it to question. What is your desktop environment?

Puh

11/15/22, 4:27 PM

Done. Could it be that the settings option has been removed by the developer?

N0rbert

11/15/22, 4:46 PM

This item seems to be removed. Could you please tell us the source of [the image](https://i.stack.imgur.com/f3puO.png)? I suspect it from 2010s.

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N0rbert

11/15/22, 6:02 PM

Below is the historical source code analysis. The changelog file indicates that the Preferences was removed from Caffeine 2.5:

caffeine (2.5) saucy; urgency=low

Remove --preferences command-line option, no longer needed.

So we need to get older Caffeine 2.4.1 version from PPA with old dependencies by using commands below:

cd ~/Downloads
wget -c https://launchpad.net/~caffeine-developers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+files/caffeine_2.4.1+478~raring1_all.deb
wget -c http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/liba/libappindicator/libappindicator1_12.10.1daily13.04.15-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
wget -c http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/eglibc/multiarch-support_2.17-0ubuntu5.1_amd64.deb
wget -c http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/liba/libappindicator/python-appindicator_12.10.1daily13.04.15-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
wget -c http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/python-central/python-central_0.6.17ubuntu2_all.deb
wget -c http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/pygtk/python-gtk2_2.24.0-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb
wget -c http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/notify-python/python-notify_0.1.1-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb
wget -c http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/libd/libdvdread/libdvdread4_4.2.0+20121016-1ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb
wget -c http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/k/kaa-base/python-kaa-base_0.6.0+svn4596-1_amd64.deb
wget -c http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/k/kaa-metadata/python-kaa-metadata_0.7.7+svn4596-4_amd64.deb

sudo apt-get install ./caffeine_2.4.1+478~raring1_all.deb  ./python-central_0.6.17ubuntu2_all.deb ./python-appindicator_12.10.1daily13.04.15-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ./python-notify_0.1.1-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb ./python-kaa-metadata_0.7.7+svn4596-4_amd64.deb ./libdvdread4_4.2.0+20121016-1ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb ./libappindicator1_12.10.1daily13.04.15-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ./python-kaa-base_0.6.0+svn4596-1_amd64.deb ./python-gtk2_2.24.0-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb ./multiarch-support_2.17-0ubuntu5.1_amd64.deb python-dbus

and then Caffeine will show (at least on MATE, the fork of GNOME 2.3x) its Preferences as it was in 2013:

This old Caffeine version maybe locked at its version by using the long command below:

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/pin-caffeine
Package: caffeine
Pin: version 2.4.1+478~raring1
Pin-Priority: 1337

Package: libappindicator1
Pin: version 12.10.1daily13.04.15-0ubuntu1
Pin-Priority: 1337
EOF

If you do not like it, then revert to modern version by using

sudo rm /etc/apt/preferences.d/pin-caffeine
sudo dpkg -P --force-all python-central
sudo apt-get install -f
sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo apt autoremove

Please note that 1.0.1 version from 2009 with "Activate for" submenu is not installable because of very old dependencies.

If anyone knows the replacement of Caffeine for modern GNOME please write an answer covering this. Brief search gives a clue that gnome-shell-extension-caffeine package maybe a good replacement for original Caffeine.

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Puh

11/16/22, 8:35 PM

Thanx @NOrbert, I installed it as you suggested. Unfortunately, on my system the icon does not appear at all, when I start caffeine 2.4.1. Maybe this is the reason for the changes from version 2.5 onwards.

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