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wayidle - wait for wayland idle timeout

NAME  SYNOPSIS  OPTIONS  DESCRIPTION  ENVIRONMENT  DEVELOPMENT  SEE ALSO  AUTHORS 

NAME

wayidle - wait for wayland idle timeout

SYNOPSIS

wayidle [-s|--seat SEAT_NAME] -t|--timeout=SECONDS [COMMAND [ARGS...]]

OPTIONS

-s, --seat SEAT_NAME

Wait for idle timeout on a given seat. If unspecified, the first seat is used.

-t --timeout SECONDS

Wait for a timeout of SECONDS seconds.

-h --help

Print usage information and exit.

DESCRIPTION

wayidle waits until the Wayland compositor reports being SECONDS seconds idle.

The idle timer always starts after wayidle is executed. If the system was already idle, the timer starts after wayidle starts. Idle seconds before command execution do not count.

ENVIRONMENT

WAYLAND_DISPLAY

Connect to the specified wayland socket.

DEVELOPMENT

For issues and general development inquiries, see the project home currently hosted at SourceHut:

https://git.sr.ht/˜whynothugo/wayidle

SEE ALSO

swayidle(1)

AUTHORS

Developed by Hugo O. Barrera <[email protected]>.

wayidle is an open source project licensed under the ISC licence and developed for anyone to use freely. If you would like to sponsor this project, see:

https://whynothugo.nl/sponsor


Updated 2026-06-01 - jenkler.se | uex.se