swayidle
Idle management daemon for Wayland (by swaywm)
swaybg
Wallpaper tool for Wayland compositors (by swaywm)
| swayidle | swaybg | |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | 2 | |
| 560 | 536 | |
| 0.9% | 2.1% | |
| 3.5 | 5.6 | |
| 3 months ago | 3 months 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
swaybg
Posts with mentions or reviews of swaybg.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-05.
- How to change paper in wayland dwl (I delete post when I get answer)
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swaybg alone eating up almost 500mb ram for some reason! are there any alternatives?
What version of swaybg are you on? There were some changes in swaybg in 1.1 https://github.com/swaywm/swaybg/commits/master
What are some alternatives?
When comparing swayidle and swaybg you can also consider the following projects:
swaylock - Screen locker for Wayland
oguri - A very nice animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland compositors
wayvnc - A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors
swayidle - Idle management daemon for Wayland
wl-gammactl
sway-borders - Fork of sway with some extra features, mainly related to borders.
kiwmi - A fully programmable Wayland Compositor
wob - A lightweight overlay volume/backlight/progress/anything bar for Wayland.
wdisplays - GUI display configurator for wlroots compositors
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
wlanthy - Experimental, simple Wayland-native Japanese input method