Show HN: LidAwake – Keep your Mac awake with the lid closed (200 lines of Swift)
☕ LidAwake Keep your Mac awake with the lid closed. One click from the menu bar. lidawake website ↗ A native macOS menu bar utility with no Dock icon, no Electron, no background daemons,and an entire codebase you can read in one sitting. Why LidAwake? macOS only keeps running with the lid closed when an external display is attached (clamshell mode).
- ▪☕ LidAwake Keep your Mac awake with the lid closed.
- ▪One click from the menu bar. lidawake website ↗ A native macOS menu bar utility with no Dock icon, no Electron, no background daemons,and an entire codebase you can read in one sitting.
- ▪Why LidAwake? macOS only keeps running with the lid closed when an external display is attached (clamshell mode).
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| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/deezeddd/LidAwake-Mac |
| Publication time | Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:13:23 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-11T21:56:10.171Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-11T21:56:10.171Z |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
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| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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☕ LidAwake Keep your Mac awake with the lid closed. One click from the menu bar. lidawake website ↗ A native macOS menu bar utility with no Dock icon, no Electron, no background daemons,and an entire codebase you can read in one sitting. Why LidAwake? macOS only keeps running with the lid closed when an external display is attached (clamshell mode). If you want to close the lid while a build finishes, a server runs, or music plays, your options are third-party apps or remembering pmset incantations. LidAwake wraps the official Apple power-management flag in a one-click menu bar toggle, and adds one thing nothing else does: it remembers your display brightness across every lid close and reopen. Features ☕ One-click toggle: a coffee cup in the menu bar.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.