Hello fellow Linux gamers,

Is there a way to pause or suspend games and turn off the PC similar to how the Steam Deck handles it? Or is this functionality exclusive to the Steam Deck?

I’m using Arch btw, but feel free to share solutions for other distros as well.

I came across Nyrna, but it seems to only support X11 and not Wayland, according to the description.

  • ziviz@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    21·
    2 months ago

    I just tried it on Nobara. Just… application launcher (The start menu icon)->sleep. Waited, and then woke the machine back up and when the machine came back up, the game was still running. No idea if all games will play nice with that, but Satisfactory did.

  • MonkderVierte
    4·
    2 months ago

    Weren’t there a kill command to pause any app and another to wake it up?

      • ReakDuck
        1·
        2 months ago

        It doesn’t work for all games. I think Grey Goo was problematic

        (I remember doing thid when I had an Nvidia. Someone noted down that Nvidia does have issues. Maybe I should try again with my AMD)

        • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Technically it works, but they are doing something that makes them bug away when resumed. It is not rare that this is related to graphics

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    I don’t know exactly how they do it - but I believe it’s related to gamescope. I’m pretty sure it just dumps the ram and enters sleep mode.

  • vinzenz@lemmy.chaos.berlin
    3·
    2 months ago

    I guess the solution is configuring your power button to enter sleep? That works for Wayland as well. Just don’t long-press it to open the power menu…

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    3·
    2 months ago

    Never had problems with that on laptops, except when I enabled nVidia graphics. So stay away from that.

    It’s been a long while since I’ve tried it on a desktop, never felt the need. I don’t even remember if I was on Linux or Windows last time I tried it on a desktop.

    So, I guess in general it should work. It’s just a simple suspend to RAM. Should be supported by every distribution out of the box.

  • Strayce@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    I’m running Bazzite on LeGo and it does this. No idea what until or settings it uses to achieve it tho.