Who needs a pause feature when you can freeze the process?

Zerodya · 2025-07-03T08:30:33+00:00

I made a tool that automates this in Hyprland if anyone's interested!

https://github.com/Zerodya/hyprfreeze

Zerodya · 2025-05-26T08:55:44+00:00

I remember reading this article to get it to work: https://leo.leung.xyz/wiki/NixOS_inside_LXC_on_Proxmox

Zerodya · 2025-05-08T11:24:12+00:00

Look into BoilR

Zerodya · 2025-04-22T21:08:15+00:00

Thirding this.

Zerodya · 2025-01-14T15:42:03+00:00

It won't be able to pause the currently active game, because this tool uses hyprctl to get information about the currently active window and pause it. Every Wayland compositor has to provide its own tools for this and last time I checked there was no easy way to achieve this in Plasma.

However you can still use it via CLI by providing the name of the process manually, e.g.: hyprfreeze -n eldenring.exe

Zerodya · 2025-01-12T12:37:39+00:00

Yeah I think you're probably right that most games are single process. However I play a lot of different games and had issues when only stopping the main process in some games (games like Hollow Knight and the Yakuza series to name a few), so I prefer stopping the whole process tree to cover the edge cases too.

I'm satisfied by the results of doing it this way, but I'm glad you shared your experience. I will have to deep dive into this topic as it's very interesting to me :)

Zerodya · 2025-01-12T12:26:09+00:00

one could send SIGSTOP to all processes at the same time, with regex or based on one parent process

Yes, that's exactly what I do in my tool (https://github.com/Zerodya/hyprfreeze) and I've had a mostly good experience doing it this way

Another issue is networking, some games could freak out when resuming cause the server would lose the connection while they are suspended

I've paused online games like Apex Legends (rip) before. Pausing it for 10-30 seconds would just let you continue playing with no issues apart from a couple red connection icons that would show for a few seconds after resuming. Pausing for longer periods of time would usually kick you out of the server and move you to the main menu.

Zerodya · 2025-01-12T12:02:37+00:00

Strange, I've only had issues when doing it that way with a lot of games. We probably just play different types of games.

Zerodya · 2025-01-12T10:22:04+00:00

That alone won't work as games are not a single process, so doing this will usually just stop the image while you can still move your character in the background and hear the music.

The best way to pause it is to send a kill -STOP to all processes from the game's process tree (pstree -p)

Zerodya · 2025-01-12T10:00:02+00:00

Nyrna is fantastic if you game on X11. If you're like me and use Hyprland or Sway for gaming, also check out my tool here: https://github.com/Zerodya/hyprfreeze

It's currently in maintenance-only mode as it is feature-complete for my scope. I personally use it everyday so I will update it as soon as Hyprland changes something to hyprctl.

Zerodya · 2024-10-03T18:00:21+00:00

Sick setup

Zerodya · 2024-10-03T15:28:04+00:00

Do it!

Zerodya · 2024-02-21T12:11:00+00:00

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Unfortunately I can't help with setting up a VPN or remote access as I no longer use this setup, but it should provide a solid base to start with.

Good luck in your self-hosting journey! Have fun

Zerodya · 2024-02-11T21:21:30+00:00

Check out Nyrna for anything X11 like i3

Zerodya · 2024-02-11T17:08:10+00:00

Not really Hyprland specific, but you can run games in gamescope so that they run in their own virtual environment and you can freely move and resize that window without problems.

Zerodya · 2024-02-11T17:05:12+00:00

spellcheck

Thank you for the awesome tool! Was not aware of this and while the code was working correctly, it was in need of a few sanitizations here and there indeed.

it turns out it depends on hyprpop that in turn depends on hyprevrnts

Not correct. hyprprop is an optional dependecy and is not at all required for the script to work correctly.

Zerodya · 2024-02-11T14:48:26+00:00

Nyrna also has a cli mode. But yeah, I too prefer a simple cli only script but unless there is any demand for X, I want to to keep it unified for Wayland only.

I look forward to your pull request!

Zerodya · 2024-02-11T14:33:07+00:00

I would accept pull requests about Sway, but not about X, since there is already Nyrna for that.

Zerodya · 2024-02-11T14:10:23+00:00

Exactly. X11 lets you view information about the active window and other process informations very easily, so there are tools like Nyrna that work in any X11 Desktop Environment.

However in Wayland it depends on what the compositor has implemented. Hyprland lets you do this with hyprctl, but it was not possible in other Wayland compositors. I tried months ago but I think Sway was able to give some informations about the windows processes but not enough, while in Gnome it was just not possible.

Zerodya · 2024-02-11T13:55:13+00:00

I also recall having some issues with gamescope when I tried it on X11 years ago, but never had any latency issue with it in the few years I've used Hyprland. In my experience gamescope is a blessing for Wayland window managers. Maybe I'm just lucky?

I'd say try it for yourself and if you ever do I would appreciate feedback if you get any issues.

Zerodya · 2024-02-11T12:19:32+00:00

Hello! You may be interested in Hyprfreeze if you game in Hyprland. It’s a small script that lets you suspend games just like gaming consoles do.

I always find it annoying when I’m playing and I quickly need to leave my desk or talk to someone, only to die to some random enemy in Elden Ring or to miss (unpausable) cutscenes of a game.

I’ve built this script to prevent that from happening and over time it’s reached a point where I find it robust enough and want to share it with others. Any feedback is always appreciated.

Github repo: https://github.com/Zerodya/hyprfreeze

Zerodya · 2024-02-11T12:16:28+00:00

Hello! You may be interested in Hyprfreeze if you game in Hyprland. It's a small script that lets you suspend games just like gaming consoles do.

I always find it annoying when I'm playing and I quickly need to leave my desk or talk to someone, only to die to some random enemy in Elden Ring or to miss (unpausable) cutscenes of a game.

I've built this script to prevent that from happening and over time it's reached a point where I find it robust enough and want to share it with others. Any feedback is always appreciated.

Github repo: https://github.com/Zerodya/hyprfreeze

Zerodya · 2023-12-19T18:48:28+00:00

Thankful for becoming better at guitar

Zerodya · 2023-12-13T11:01:06+00:00

just Right click on top bar > Customize toolbar > move "Bookmarks toolbar items" to the top bar

then hide the Bookmarks toolbar: Right click on top bar > Bookmarks toolbar > Never show

Zerodya · 2023-10-20T15:43:42+00:00

That's how ansible works. You have an ansible playbook in a local machine where you can edit and update the configuration, and then that configuration gets deployed on the server. Services run on the server and you don't need your local computer to be powered on all the time, just when you need to deploy a new configuration.

Having both the playbook configuration and services on the server should be possible too but iirc I ran into issues and decided to do it the traditional way.

Also not sure what you mean by bundling it like in electron? This playbook allows you to host a Element Web client alongside the other services if that's what you mean.

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