swaywm/swayidle

loop timeout events

UltraBlackLinux opened this issue · 2 comments

UltraBlackLinux commented

I'd really appreciate an option to loop timeout events. Currently I have to do things like
swayidle timeout 10 script.sh resume script2.sh timeout 20 script.sh resume script2.sh
which is really clumsy and annoying.
could you improve this?

kennylevinsen commented

Moved to swayidle.

You'd have to specify a use-case that would be reasonable for swayidle to cover.

You can just have one timeout that start a process that loops indefinitely on its own, and a resume that kills it.

UltraBlackLinux commented

Moved to swayidle.

Oh I'm so sorry. I mixed up the repos

You can just have one timeout that start a process that loops indefinitely on its own, and a resume that kills it.

That actually seems like a pretty reasonable solution. I didn't even think of that, thanks!