A monitor-restart service written for Sunshine Linux Hosts!

The great Sunshine game stream application has a critical issue on Linux desktops: When the display sleeps, Sunshine doesn't wake it up and instead errors out (see this GiHub discussion for more information). This makes using Sunshine with Linux-on-the-Desktop a frustrating experience.

Sunrise will monitor the Sunshine log file, watch for monitor-is-missing errors, then wake the monitor.

Sunrise is very configurable, check out the sunrise.cfg.example file for all of the commented options.

• Build sunrise with go build (or use build-with-docker.bash to build using an ephemeral Docker container)
• Move sunrise to /opt/sunrise/sunrise
• Copy sunrise.cfg.example to /etc/sunrise/sunrise.cfg
• Edit /etc/sunrise/sunrise.cfg to your specifications (you'll need to change the SunshineLogPath variable)
• Copy sunrise.service to $HOME/.config/systemd/user/sunrise.service
• systemctl --user daemon-reload
• systemctl --user enable sunrise
• systemctl --user start sunrise

This is working for Debian Trixie + KDE and GNOME Wayland, but I don't have the time to test every desktop environment out there. If you want, feel free to add other working "wake monitor" commands in sunrise.cfg.example.