The i3 `exec` line pointed at
/home/kuchy/linux-configuration/scripts/utils/turn_off_auto_idle_screen_shutdown.sh
- a typo'd home ("kuchy") *and* a path that stopped existing when the repo
was reorganised in db6276b. The exec has been failing silently at every
login ever since, so the idle inhibitor was simply not running: a controller
was connected with no "idle-off" lock held, meaning the screen could blank
and lock during controller gaming, which is exactly what the line exists to
prevent.
Point it at the script's real location.
Also make --watch-controller a singleton. It is a long-lived watcher started
from an i3 `exec`, and i3 re-runs those on every `i3-msg restart`, so each
restart would leave another watcher holding a redundant inhibitor for the
rest of the session. One flock, held for the life of the watcher.
Verified: the watcher now holds
idle-off 1000 kuhy <pid> systemd-inhibit idle "game controller connected"
and a second invocation declines instead of stacking a second inhibitor.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add a self-expiring override system so specific late-night live events
(2026 World Cup matches) can be watched without the auto-shutdown killing
the PC, without weakening the permanent schedule ratchet:
- shutdown-override-manager.sh (add/list/remove): add is friction-gated
(typed confirmation phrase + 30s delay, max 12h, max 3 windows) and
writes absolute-epoch windows to /etc/shutdown-schedule-overrides.conf.
- day-specific-shutdown-check.sh now skips the shutdown decision inside an
active window (pruning expired entries) and gained a DRY_RUN guard around
rtcwake/poweroff/hibernate for safe testing.
i3blocks shutdown_countdown.sh: show the exact next-shutdown clock time
(not a relative countdown), show the overridden end time in green when an
override is active or will rescue the upcoming shutdown, and make the
skip-dates check fork-free (builtin read loop) so the hot path spawns no
external processes.
install.sh: deploy i3blocks by symlinking each repo file into
~/.config/i3blocks instead of cp -r (the source of silent drift), cd to
the script dir so it runs from anywhere, and chmod +x only *.sh so the
config file stays 0644.
Repair the previously-dead i3blocks regression suite (stale path), update
the shutdown assertion to the new absolute-time output, add hermetic
override coverage, and keep the <=1-exec fork-count guarantee.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmwYH5RfThZGkVD2jE61Da
Deleted screen_replay.sh (x11grab ring-buffer) and kill_stale_recorders.sh
(stale-ffmpeg killer). Removed autostart exec and Mod+Shift+F12 binding from
i3/config; removed replay startup from dwm-session. Both scripts archived in
testsAndMisc-archive.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
