regolith-linux/SwayAudioIdleInhibit

SwayAudioIdleInhibit

Prevents swayidle from sleeping while any application is outputting or receiving audio. Should work with all Wayland desktops that support the zwp_idle_inhibit_manager_v1 protocol but only tested in Sway

This only works for Pulseaudio / Pipewire Pulse

Install

Arch: The package is available on the AUR

Other:

meson build
ninja -C build
meson install -C build

Sway Usage

# Enables inhibit_idle when playing audio
exec sway-audio-idle-inhibit

Other usages without inhibiting idle

These could be used to monitor if any application is using your mic or playing any audio.

Monitor sources and sinks: will print RUNNING or NOT RUNNING

sway-audio-idle-inhibit --dry-print-both

Monitor sources: will print RUNNING or NOT RUNNING

sway-audio-idle-inhibit --dry-print-source

Monitor sinks: will print RUNNING or NOT RUNNING

sway-audio-idle-inhibit --dry-print-sink