swayidle resumes immediately with SIGUSR1 about swayidle HOT 7 CLOSED

Possibly wakes up when the enter key releases, have you tried a slower command e.g. sleep 1; killall -SIGUSR1 swayidle ?

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I have a similar setup, and I can't reproduce.

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Tried this on the latest master just in case and stil seem to get the same issue.

Interesting that you dont see the same problem @emersion - I wonder if its something to do with my configuration.

For the record, dpms turns off and stays off when I wait for an actual idle timeout to occur (ie not sending a SIGUSR1)

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@martinetd sleep 1; killall -SIGUSR1 swayidle does indeed work as expected. Is there any way we could cater for this within swayidle? I had a look a the code last night but nothing obvious stood out to me.

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No, there's no way to include this in swayidle. You can bindsym --release instead, or keep the sleep.

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bindsym --release does not seem to work. However the workaround sleep 0.1 && killall -SIGUSR1 swayidle seems to be reasonable.

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I guess bindsym --release does not work for you because you're using a key combination like $mod+<some_key> and --release acts when you release <some_key> but then it immediately turns back on your screen because you release the $mod. Does it make sense?

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