nosleep

A simple command-line tool to prevent your Mac from sleeping Currently working only on intelx64 macOs. More versions to come.

Features

• Prevents your Mac's display from sleeping for a specified duration.
• Easily kill the active nosleep process.
• Check the remaining time for the active nosleep process.

Installation

Pre-compiled Binaries

Download the latest release from the releases page and move the binary to a directory in your PATH.

From Source

Ensure you have Rust and Cargo installed.

git clone https://github.com/johnretsas/nosleep.git
cd nosleep
cargo build --release

The binary will be available at target/release/nosleep.

Usage

Prevent your Mac's display from sleeping:

nosleep 120

This will prevent your Mac's display from sleeping for 120 minutes.

Kill the active nosleep process:

nosleep -k

Check the remaining time for the active nosleep process:

nosleep -l