Re: How to reset the idle timer?

> From: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2026 08:57:07 +0100
> 
> Here is my use case.  When I close my laptop (not sure what it's
> technically called - sleep? hibernation?), and then open it again (say,
> after a few hours), I'd like Emacs to set up an idle timer to do
> something, say, 1 minute after I stop pressing any buttons.  I have
> a (not great, but working) way to run some Elisp after I open my laptop,
> but when I set up an idle timer then, it runs immediately, since the
> idle time is several hours.  I'd like to reset that idle time so that my
> idle timer will really run after 1 minute of idleness - so, 1 minute
> /after/ opening the laptop if I don't do anything else, and later if
> I do something in Emacs within 60 seconds of opening my laptop.

When the laptop is open, call run-with-timer to set up a normal
(non-idle) timer that runs 1 min after that, and in the timer function
of that timer start an idle timer.