Keep Awake
Keep your computer and display awake for a set time, until a clock time, forever, or during a weekly window. Choosing Sleep still works.
Overview
Keep Awake stops your computer from going to sleep when idle and keeps the display on, for as long as you say. See the Keep Awake page for an overview.
Requirements
Keep Awake stays off until you turn it on.
| System | Supported |
|---|---|
| macOS | Yes |
| Windows | Yes |
| Linux (Wayland) | Yes |
| Linux (X11) | Yes |
| Permission | What it's for |
|---|---|
| Prevent Sleep | Keeps the display on and stops this computer from idle-sleeping. Closing the lid and choosing Sleep still work. |
| Show Notifications | Confirms what it did with a short message. |
| Use a Global Hotkey | Listens for its own shortcut while you work in other apps. |
| Add Tools to Command Mode | Lets you use it by voice in Command mode. |
Mac and Windows need no system permission. On Linux, Glaido needs logind or the desktop's inhibit portal; the extension's page says if neither is there.
Turn it on
Open in Glaido: Keep Awake. Opens this extension's setup in the Glaido desktop app.
Or open Extensions in the Glaido sidebar, choose Keep Awake, and turn it on. Turning it on doesn't start a session.
Use it
Ask by voice, or open Keep Awake in Spotlight and choose 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week or Forever. Allow sleep ends the session.
A session can be:
- For a time: 30 minutes, 2 hours, forever.
- Until a time: 6pm, or Friday at 6pm. A time that has passed today means the next one.
- A weekly window: weekdays from 9 to 6, for example.
A new request replaces the one running. A toast tells you when a session starts, changes and ends.
| Command | Say | Default shortcut |
|---|---|---|
| Keep Awake: Starts, changes or ends a keep-awake session: for a time, until a time, forever, or a weekly window. Its shortcut opens the presets in Spotlight. | "Keep my computer awake for 2 hours", "Keep this computer awake until 6pm", "Keep this computer awake on weekdays from 9 to 6", "Keep this computer awake Monday to Friday except Wednesday from 7am to 7pm", "Let the computer sleep" | Set your own |
| Awake Schedule: Tells you what is running and when it ends, or shows it in Spotlight. | "How long is keep awake running?", "What's the current keep awake schedule?", "Show me the keep awake timer" | By voice or Spotlight |
Voice commands
Hold your Commands hotkey and say:
- "Keep my computer awake for 2 hours"
- "Keep this computer awake until 6pm"
- "Keep this computer awake on weekdays from 9 to 6"
- "Cancel keep awake"
From a terminal or an agent
Keep Awake adds no server of its own. With the command line on, run glaido ext keep-awake keep_awake --for "2 hours" from a terminal, or call it from an AI agent through glaido mcp. See Extensions.
Settings
Keep Awake has no settings. Give Keep awake a shortcut on the extension's page to open its presets in Spotlight.
Privacy
A duration or a clock time isn't stored. A weekly window is saved on this computer so it can start again after Glaido restarts. Turning the extension off deletes it.
Troubleshooting
- The computer slept anyway. Keep Awake blocks idle sleep only. Choosing Sleep, and closing the lid on a Mac, still put the computer to sleep. On Linux, closing the lid follows your session's settings.
- The computer stays awake after the session ended. Another app may be keeping it awake. Glaido only reports and releases its own session.
- The session ended when I quit Glaido. That's expected. A weekly window starts again the next time Glaido runs inside it.