When going to sleep at night i like to put on a movie or serie on my steamdeck. I wanted the steamdeck to suspend after a variable amount of time. So i created a little bash script with a desktop file to do this. The desktop file goes on your desktop so you can click it, it pops up a window asking in how many minutes the steamdeck should suspend and after that it will sleep until the time has passed so you can just put it in the background and fullscreen your movie and fall asleep. I thought i’d share my little hacked together script so other people can benefit too.

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The file to put on your desktop (sleep.desktop):

[Desktop Entry]
Comment=
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=/home/deck/scripts/sleep.sh
GenericName=
Name=Sleep
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=true
Type=Application

The /home/deck/scripts/sleep.sh script:

#!/bin/bash
VALUE=`zenity --scale --text="How many minutes before steamdeck suspends?" --min-value=10 --value=60 --step=10 --max-value=240`
case $? in
         0)
		seconds=$((VALUE * 60))
		echo "Sleeping $seconds seconds ($VALUE minutes)...."
		sleep $seconds
		echo "Suspending..."
		sudo systemctl suspend;;
         1)
                echo "No value selected.";;
        -1)
                echo "An unexpected error has occurred.";;
esac

To allow deck to run systemctl without sudo password add this to your sudo file:

deck ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/systemctl

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The icon on the desktop

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Asking how long until suspend

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Go watch a movie :-)