wp-swayidle

A program that manages swayidle depending on audio output.

If any active stream is detected, swayidle will be stopped, if not, swayidle will be re-spawned. Only the swayidle instance spawned by wp-swayidle will be stopped.

Originally, I wrote this program because it's hard to pause swayidle on all the occasions that I do not want my screen suddenly been locked, like when I am watching a video in a browser that is not in fullscreen, playing games that are not listed in the for_window rules in Sway, or just listening to music hosted by mpd. By just checking if there is any audio output, almost all the occasions are covered.

Dependencies

Runtime Dependencies

• swayidle

Build Dependencies

• meson
• ninja
• GCC or compatible C compiler
• wireplumber
• pipewire

Installation

meson setup build
ninja -C build

sudo ninja -C build install

Usage

wp-swayidle <interval> [-- <swayidle args>...]

For example in ~/.config/sway/config:

exec swayidle -w before-sleep 'swaylock'
exec wp-swayidle 3 -- timeout 300 'swaylock' \
                      timeout 600 'swaymsg "output * power off"' \
                      resume 'swaymsg "output * power on"'