swaylock-effects VS SwayAudioIdleInhibit

With Swaylock-effects you can use --grace and --fade-in to set some time to react. Hope it helps!

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.

I use swaylock-effects (github) instead of plain swaylock because I think it looks nicer, worth looking into for eye candy.

I know this is gonna be downvoted, but if you decide to move to sway in the future, you have swaylock-effects to do exactly that.

Might be possible to make it a custom effect for swaylock-effects

swaylock-effects on the other hand is designed for fancier stuff, has some built in, and has some hooks for custom effects which you could probably use.

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.

I's working when i executing on a terminal. I've this https://github.com/mortie/swaylock-effects

SwayAudioIdleInhibit (github) to keep the screen from idling/locking if you have audio playing.

You may want to look at this. Not exactly what you are looking for, but it works for me.

On manjaro-sway you have a button to temporary disable idle control. Without overcomplicating too much, I would go there. SwayAudioInhibit is also a great ally, to avoid idle while playing games/video/music.

I'm also using sway-audio-idle-inhibit to prevent idle and lock if there's audio playback. If you want config examples on that, let me know.