Re: How to reset the idle timer?

> From: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected],  [email protected]
> Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:08:19 +0100
> 
> On 2026-03-01, at 13:42, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >> 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.
> 
> That's interesting.  I have a feeling that it's a bit convoluted and
> hackish, but then maybe so is my idea of "resetting" the idle time.
> Still, I think that a "reset" like this may be more elegant and simpler.
> WDYT?  Is `(setq unread-command-events nil)' a good idea, then?

No, I don't think so.  It might work, by sheer luck.