Ability to lock screen after period of idleness.

[tmccombs]

The actual screen locking probably doesn't belong in sway, but sway should somehow report activity/idleness, so a dameon can watch for idleness and take some action (such as locking the screen, or suspending) after a period of idleness.

[Timidger]

While I admit to not knowing the sway / i3 api off the top of my head, wouldn't it be better for this to be doable using a user script? Check for user input / event input and if it hadn't happened in n seconds lock the screen.

[ascent12]

This is related to #541, which has a bounty on it.

[tmccombs]

Check for user input / event input and if it hadn't happened in n seconds

I'm not super familiar with wayland, but from what I can tell there isn't a way to do that. What I'm really asking for is a way to ask sway when the last user input happened, so that a script like that is possible.

One option could be to have sway tell logind when the session is active or idle, and have systemd handle actually locking, suspending, etc. Of course, that doesn't work on systems without logind.

[ddevault]

#541