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Mac won't sleep with SS running
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 1:38 am
by jrethorst
This happens on both my Intel and PPC machines. I have "Don't use CPU when idle" checked in the Memory/Misc. tabs in SS GUI. Is this standard?
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:25 am
by Cat_7
Hi,
I guess we are learning something new now and again. When the "don't use CPU when idle" option was introduced into SheepShaver it made SheepShaver not use the CPU for 100% all the time. So it made the host more usable when SheepShaver was running, but idle.
But adhering to the OSX sleep requirements might be something different altogether, and might not be implemented (yet?)
Best wishes,
Cat_7
Re: Mac won't sleep with SS running
Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2020 4:34 am
by jrethorst
Running Sheepshaver 2.5 (2019-05-04) on OS 10.11.6, the Mac will not go to sleep automatically if Sheepshaver is running. I quit Sheepshaver and the Mac then sleeps as it should.
Is there any fix?
Thanks,
John R.
Re: Mac won't sleep with SS running
Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2020 2:58 am
by jrethorst
I thought I'd write something myself. A pro at Stack Overflow had a shell script to get idle time (time elapsed since keystroke or mouse movement):
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set idleTime to do shell script "ioreg -c IOHIDSystem | awk '/HIDIdleTime/ {print $NF/1000000000; exit}'"
Since I use an Applescript to drive Sheepshaver anyway, giving you drag-and-drop functionality via an open handler, I just added an idle handler that checks idle time against a user-set interval.
John R.
Re: Mac won't sleep with SS running
Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2020 6:22 pm
by jrethorst
I'm advised that the most recent build of Sheepshaver, of 15 March 2020, has fixed the issue.
John R.
Re: Mac won't sleep with SS running
Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2020 4:39 am
by jrethorst
Turns out I was misinformed. With the most recent Sheepshaver build running, the Mac's display will sleep but that's all. This is on a 4k 2019 machine running Mojave.
I hope this gets fixed. I like to leave my most-used apps running, and let the Mac sleep when I'm away from it.
John R.