Caffeine 0.3 is Out with Major Improvements

Caffeine is a little application that sits in your system tray, waiting for you to click it. Once you do, it fills up with coffee and keeps your computer from going to sleep or activating the screensaver. Caffeine is very handy for full screen games, watching a flash video, downloading something or so.

What’s new in Caffeine 0.3?

* Complete object-oriented rewrite.

* Support for xscreensaver

* Support for DPMS

* Full support for internationalization

* Command-line interface

* Simplification of packaging

You can also check Caffeine’s roadmap by clicking here.

Download Caffeine 0.3:

Edit your sources.list and add Caffeine Launchpad PPA to your list:

$gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

And add the following at the end of the file:

For  Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/caffeine-developers/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/caffeine-developers/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

For Ubuntu Karmic Koala

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/caffeine-developers/ppa/ubuntu karmic main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/caffeine-developers/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

Save and close it.

Add the PPA key by entering :

$sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 569113AE

Update your system / list :

$sudo apt-get update

Install Caffeine with this command :

$sudo apt-get install caffeine

Tested and works great on Ubuntu Karmic Koala Alpha 4.