swayidle
Idle management daemon for Wayland (by swaywm)
swaylock
Screen locker for Wayland (by swaywm)
| swayidle | swaylock | |
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| 11 | 16 | |
| 561 | 865 | |
| 1.1% | 1.4% | |
| 3.5 | 5.4 | |
| 4 months ago | 2 months ago | |
| C | C | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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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
swaylock
Posts with mentions or reviews of swaylock.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-26.
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How to change the swayidle config
I am using the Fedora 38 Sway Spin and I want to change the swayidle behaviour, because I want to use swaylock-effects instead of swaylock.
- swaylock version 1.7 has been released!
- Why do wayfire took so long to load configs?
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A screen locker that plays video?
After that you could go for swaylock with a transparent color like mentioned here: https://github.com/swaywm/swaylock/issues/192
- Release 1.6 ยท swaywm/swaylock
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Can KScreenLocker and SDDM merged into one single program?
I meant that a standard of some sort is probably needed to handle both the desktop environment telling the display manager to lock the screen AND allowing said display manager to take over the screen and lock it. On Wayland at the moment I'm not aware of any screen locker that isn't part of the DE itself that works on GNOME or KDE (I only know of swaylock and waylock, and both require protocols that are only implemented by wlroots based compositors, at least according to Waylock's readme).
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Display blank/black screen few seconds before swaylock
Based on this issue, you're only going to get this from writing a script or something to do it, or try a fork like swaylock-effects or something.
- Does Sway have screen lock feature?
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Secure alternative to Swaylock available in the Fedora repositories?
It seems Swaylock, Sway's default screen locker, has some concerning security issues that could allow easy access to the desktop requiring very little effort from an attacker. [ Related GitHub post ]
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Swaylock blank input with only background visisble
Hmmm - looks like it's an old unfixed bug
What are some alternatives?
When comparing swayidle and swaylock you can also consider the following projects:
wayvnc - A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors
wlogout - A wayland based logout menu
swayidle - Idle management daemon for Wayland
swaylock-effects - Swaylock, with fancy effects
sway-borders - Fork of sway with some extra features, mainly related to borders.
gtklock - GTK-based lockscreen for Wayland
swaybg - Wallpaper tool for Wayland compositors
waylock - A small screenlocker for Wayland compositors
wob - A lightweight overlay volume/backlight/progress/anything bar for Wayland.
xsecurelock - X11 screen lock utility with security in mind
swayidle
mako - A lightweight Wayland notification daemon