GitHub - Zerodya/hyprfreeze: Pause and resume game/program process in Hyprland
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Hey all! If you do any gaming on Hyprland, you might be interested in hyprfreeze.

It’s a very simple bash script I made to “freeze” a game process (or any other process) in Hyprland, which you may find useful to:

  • Pause games during unpausable cutscenes
  • Save system resources (CPU and GPU are free, the process is saved in RAM)

Should just work^^TM in most scenarios but my testings can only go so far and any feedback would be very appreciated.

  • Refurbished RefurbisherEnglish
    5•9 months ago

    Does this mean I can pause online games?

    /s

    /us I’m assuming this is like pressing Ctrl+Z in a Terminal window, and then fg to unpause.

    • @Zerodya@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      6•9 months ago

      Haha, yes! Ctrl+Z sends a TSPT signal to a terminal process, while this script sends a STOP signal to every process in a game’s process tree. Both get resumed with a SIGCONT so they’re kinda similar.