swayidle
Idle management daemon for Wayland (by swaywm)
sway-borders
Fork of sway with some extra features, mainly related to borders. (by fluix-dev)
| swayidle | sway-borders | |
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| 11 | 11 | |
| 560 | 217 | |
| 0.9% | - | |
| 3.5 | 1.9 | |
| 3 months ago | almost 2 years ago | |
| C | C | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
swayidle
Posts with mentions or reviews of swayidle.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-14.
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runwhenidle - Linux utility that can automatically pause a computationally-intensive command when user is in front of a computer and resume it when they are away.
X11 is not necessary. For example: swayidle.
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Sway 1.8-rc2 has been released!
14 minutes ago: swayidle 1.8.0
- Why do wayfire took so long to load configs?
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Understanding how idle works
Because of the way logind awkwardly duplicates the idle management of the compositor, but in a way that splinters client tooling, and without any of the access or convenience of the compositor, logind integration is a candidate for removal from swayidle: https://github.com/swaywm/swayidle/issues/117.
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Sway external display
What does your swayidel configuration look like, or what are you using that triggers the computer to be suspended?
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Update: swaylock issues after latest kernel update
I suggest to anyone who was having my same problem to update the kernel and comment on the issue I opened on GitHub to get this solved on Sway side.
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idling and locking in sway
Yes it also listens to dbus signals from logind. Those features kinda duplicate the wayland ones so there's some discussion about dropping them: https://github.com/swaywm/swayidle/issues/117
- some questions
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Help with simple script to launch and kill app based on user activity
Swayidle info: https://github.com/swaywm/swayidle/blob/master/swayidle.1.scd
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Inhibit swayidle upon gamepad use
To select a specific input; run the latest upstream code of swayidle. Namely, the feature for seat selection was add in this PR
sway-borders
Posts with mentions or reviews of sway-borders.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-05.
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Why didn't i discover this earlier
There's a fork called sway-borders that implements rounded corners outside of windows.
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Hyperlinks from other app not opening in firefox
My configuration runs wayland with sway-borders, which I packaged by modifying the sway default.nix file in nixpkgs.
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Is there a way to force the gap color?
Well, there’s sway-borders, maybe you could find it useful
- Shadows in sway?
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tokyonight dump
sway-borders
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Help installing Sway on Ubuntu
This is my first time trying to build and install a program from source. I am following this tutorial on Zorin 16 (Ubuntu 20.04 based) to install Sway-Borders but I am have a few questions:
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Why is Wayland the way that it is
kinda, but you can try forks like sway-borders (never used, not sure how it is)
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Screenlock: inhibit_idle and swaylock confusion
Also I'm not sure if you've already found it but I saw your other post and there is a fork that adds rounded borders to sway.
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recommend me a Wayland tiling wm/compositor with drop shadows / window shadows
This fork of Sway: https://github.com/fluix-dev/sway-borders
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Building sway-borders on Gentoo
While trying to build sway-borders from github, it fails on my gentoo system running the stable branch's wlroots 12.0 package.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing swayidle and sway-borders you can also consider the following projects:
swaylock - Screen locker for Wayland
cagebreak - Cagebreak: A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison
wayvnc - A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors
swappy - A Wayland native snapshot editing tool, inspired by Snappy on macOS
swayidle - Idle management daemon for Wayland
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
wob - A lightweight overlay volume/backlight/progress/anything bar for Wayland.
gammastep
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
wayward - Fast desktop shell for wayland and weston.
swaybg - Wallpaper tool for Wayland compositors
wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library