turn_off_auto_idle_screen_shutdown.sh --watch-controller forked 4 xset +
1 xdotool per joystick event (blocking on a dd read, debounced by sleep
0.3) — ~21 procs/s while a controller was connected during gaming. The
xset poking was redundant: startup already disables DPMS/blanking.
Replace reset_idle_activity / watch_js_device / the polling watcher with
one long-lived `systemd-inhibit --what=idle:sleep` held only while a
/dev/input/js* device is present, re-evaluated on udev input add/remove
events (event-driven; 30s presence-poll fallback). EXIT+INT/TERM traps
release the inhibitor on every termination path.
Verified live: subtree stays {systemd-inhibit, udevadm} with zero
dd/xset/xdotool; exactly one inhibitor held; clean release on SIGTERM,
no orphans. Takes that loop from ~21 forks/s to 0.
Behavior change: keeps the session awake while a controller is connected
(not only during active input).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
atop's `-P PRC` output inserts the clock-tick rate (HZ=100) between the
`state` and `utime` columns. Both the Python parser and the native C
aggregator read that constant as utime for every record, charging a flat
1 CPU-second per record — so cpu_seconds collapsed to pid_count and
short-lived fork-storm commands (xset, dd, chronyc) topped the CPU table
(xset showed 67h). The old test fixtures lacked the HZ field, so code and
tests agreed on the bug.
- _parse_prc / atop_agg.c: read utime/stime past the HZ field (after+2/+3,
tokens[10]/[11]); bump the length guards accordingly
- restore C/atop_agg (deleted in 89b4f59) under linux_configuration/C/,
where the build path resolves; corrected test fixtures to include HZ
- _atop_agg_binary: fall back to the Python parser when the C source tree
is gone instead of trusting an orphaned cached binary
- add regression tests proving HZ is not summed as CPU
- bundle the in-progress since-last-report multi-day aggregation (segments,
-b/-e bounding, persisted state, window merging) and its tests/conftest
- meta: gate linux_configuration/tests in pytest_changed_packages.py
Verified by running usage_report.py --date 20260604: Top CPU now led by
SkyrimSE; xset/dd/chronyc fall to ~0. C unit tests + full pytest suite green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- install.sh: install sleep-hook.sh to systemd-sleep hooks (step 3) and
shutdown-wrapper.sh to /usr/local/bin/shutdown (step 5)
- shutdown-wrapper.sh: new script that intercepts shutdown calls and
redirects to rtcwake -m disk on alarm nights (Mon/Fri/Sat/Sun), pass-
through for reboots and cancel commands
- sleep-hook.sh: new systemd-sleep hook that restarts wake-alarm.service
for each logged-in user after hibernate resume
- setup_midnight_shutdown.sh: check wake-alarm day; if yes set RTC alarm
and hibernate, otherwise fall back to systemctl poweroff
- linux_configuration/tests: update script paths after periodic_background/
reorganisation (hosts_file_monitor, makepkg_capped, music_parallelism,
shutdown_timer_monitor, usage_monitoring_installer_efficiency)
- test_i3blocks_efficiency.sh: remove checks for HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL_S and
WARP_POLL_INTERVAL_S constants that no longer exist
- test_pacman_wrapper_security.sh: remove tests 20-21 (builtin time helpers /
external date calls) that are no longer applicable; update path
- generate_hosts_file.sh: add sed unblock rules for delio.com.pl and
loverslab.com to stay consistent with install.sh whitelist
- steam_backlog_enforcer/scanning.py: remove unplayable_reason arg from
logger.info call (too many format args); drop matching test assertion
- steam_backlog_enforcer/tests/test_protondb.py: add
test_unplayable_reason_no_trending_tier to restore 100% branch coverage
on protondb.py line 97 (was previously covered indirectly)
- Screen locker: disable VT switching (Ctrl+Alt+Fn) via setxkbmap
srvrkeys:none on startup; restore on close (production mode only).
Gracefully skips if setxkbmap is not installed (shutil.which).
Tests: 7 new tests, 100% branch coverage maintained.
- Midnight shutdown: restore real schedule values (Mon-Wed 21:00,
Thu-Sun 22:00, morning end 05:00); re-enable the three commented-out
leniency checks in check_schedule_protection(); self-lock script with
chattr +i at end of enable_midnight_shutdown().
- Hosts install: add UNBLOCK_STATE_FILE tracking for whitelisted domains;
check_unblock_entries_protection() blocks installation if the unblock
list grows; save state after install; self-lock install.sh and
generate_hosts_file.sh with chattr +i.
- Move all linux_configuration scripts into two semantic categories:
- single_use/: scripts run once manually (fresh install, fixes, setup)
- periodic_background/: scripts run by systemd timers or daemons
- Preserve existing subdirectory structure within each category
- Fix lib/common.sh source paths for new directory depths
- Fix CONFIG_DIR depth in setup_periodic_system.sh and check_and_enable_services.sh
- Update all references in tests, fresh-install/main.sh, nix modules, and docs
- Fix check_polling_antipatterns.sh false positives (||, regex |, case patterns, jq strings)
- Fix pre-existing mypy exclusion path and type annotations for moved tools/ directory
- Rewrite check_polling_antipatterns.sh using awk (no bash regex loops); add require_serial: true
- music_parallelism.sh + thesis_work_tracker.sh: tighter state-output and
error paths; expanded regression tests.
- hosts-file-monitor.sh + shutdown-timer-monitor.sh: harden against partial
failures, matching new test branches.
- i3blocks persist_common.sh helper improved (consumed by activitywatch /
warp status blocks).
- setup_midnight_shutdown.sh + thesis_work_status.sh: state parsing tuned.
- pacman_blocked_keywords.txt: drop one obsolete entry.
- New test_thesis_work_status.sh regression script.
All six bash regression tests pass.
- music_parallelism.sh: restore batched-pgrep/xdotool optimization that exists
in /usr/local/bin/ but had been lost from the repo, plus bump intervals
(FAST 0.5s->2s, IDLE 3s->10s) to further cut fork rate
- organize_downloads.sh: replace per-file tr fork with bash 4 ${var,,}
parameter expansion, replace per-log-line $(date) fork with printf %()T builtin
Follow-up to fork-storm fixes after observing 122 CPU-hours of date calls
in a 90-minute window (root cause was nvidia-pmon-logger.sh, fixed separately).
Resource-usage report showed ~29 cores of average load coming from i3blocks
helper scripts forking awk/tr/grep/bc/sensors/nvidia-smi every tick. Rewrite
all five hot-path scripts to eliminate forks:
- volume.sh: persist mode, blocks on 'pactl subscribe' event stream.
No polling, no sleep, no fork per tick.
- gpu_monitor.sh: persist mode, single long-lived 'nvidia-smi --loop=5'
feeds a bash 'while read' loop. Falls back to /sys for amdgpu.
- battery_status.sh: reads /sys/class/power_supply/BAT*/ directly.
Zero forks; replaces 'acpi | awk' pipeline.
- cpu_monitor.sh: reads /proc/loadavg and k10temp/coretemp /sys/class/hwmon.
Zero forks; replaces 'sensors | awk | tr' + bc arithmetic.
- motherboard_temp.sh: reads nct*/it*/f71* Super-I/O hwmon node directly.
Zero forks.
Configure volume + gpu_monitor with interval=persist so i3blocks keeps
one long-lived producer each instead of forking per tick.
Also add:
- kill_stale_recorders.sh -- kill stray ffmpeg x11grab / dotnet-trace /
dotnet-monitor processes left running after sessions.
- monitors.slice -- resource-capped user slice (CPUQuota=50%,
MemoryMax=512M, MemorySwapMax=0 for zram safety, TasksMax=256) to
bound future monitoring regressions.
- efficient-polling-scripts SKILL -- rules for writing status-bar and
polling scripts without forks; fork-pipeline to bash-builtin translation
table; verification checklist.
Verified live: strace -c on cpu_monitor.sh shows 1 execve / 0 clones;
persist producers (pactl subscribe, nvidia-smi --loop) show 0 CPU ticks
over a 3s idle sample. Per-invocation timing 1.6-1.9 ms (was 30-80 ms).
- Add comprehensive tests for all packages (3572 tests, 100% branch coverage)
- Split oversized test files to stay under 500-line limit
- Add per-file ruff ignores for test-appropriate suppressions
- Fix _cache_decks.py to properly convert JSON lists to tuples
- Add session-scoped conftest fixture for logging handler cleanup (Python 3.14)
- Update ruff pre-commit hook to v0.15.2
- Add codespell ignore words for test data
- Add generated output files to .gitignore
Add is_autoclose_suspended() function that checks for a per-app
suspend file dated today. When suspended, launches the app directly
without the auto-close timer via exec.
- Add type annotations and docstrings to focus_mode_daemon.py, transcribe_fw.py, transcribe_helpers.py
- Use logging module instead of print
- Fix bare except clauses with specific exception types
- Add enforce-resolved.sh: validates ReadEtcHosts=yes, prevents
DNSOverTLS bypass, removes drop-in overrides, locks drop-in dir
- Add resolved-guard.path/service: watches /etc/systemd/resolved.conf
and its drop-in directory for tampering
- Update pacman hooks to unlock/relock nsswitch.conf and resolved.conf
alongside /etc/hosts during package transactions
- Extend setup_hosts_guard.sh with --skip-resolved option, resolved
canonical snapshot, drop-in directory locking, and enforcement
- Add resolved.conf checks to check_and_enable_services.sh: validates
ReadEtcHosts, DNSOverTLS, drop-in overrides, immutable attribute,
and resolved-guard.path status with auto-fix capability
Fixed on live system: ReadEtcHosts was set to 'no' and nsswitch.conf
was missing 'files' in the hosts line, completely bypassing /etc/hosts.
