[Help] Using with swaylock, different timeout when swaylock is activated about swayidle HOT 4 CLOSED

Swayidle timeouts can only be set when it starts, so this would require you to kill the current swayidle and start a new one whenever you want the timeout to change.

This is why I said it might be better to have the lockscreen contain the logic you want, as that would know what is going on while swayidle only knows if its timeouts have expired.

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This is not possible with swayidle, which monitors activity. By definition, there is activity when the mouse is moved, and so all timeouts resume and start at 0.

For these kinds of things, it might be better to have a lockscreen that can turn screens off with its own logic. E.g., "immediately off when launched", "quickly off on just mouse movement or single keypress", "stay on for longer if typed on".

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By definition, there is activity when the mouse is moved, and so all timeouts resume and start at 0.

I get that, but after timer resets to 0 I would prefer if swayidle turnoff my screen after 60 seconds instead of regular 360 I set if my system is locked with swaylock. Am I not understanding something?

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Thank you for clarifying! On the side note, do you have any specific lockscreen software recommendations I could use?

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