swayidle doesn't work

[austinweisgrau]

I'm running regolith 3.0 on Wayland on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

swayidle seems to be totally defunct. I can't get it to notice an idle period.

Here is the output for a sample command from the commandline:

$ swayidle -d timeout 5 'swaylock'
Got timeout
Register idle timeout at 5000 ms
Setup idle
Command: swaylock
No config file found.
Using session: /org/freedesktop/login1/session/_37
Enable idle timeouts
Register with timeout: 5000

After that, nothing is registered, even if the system is left to idle for a long time, the swaylock doesn't begin, etc.

I'm new to wayland and digging in at this level so not sure how to diagnose at a deeper level what is going on here.

The closest discussion I could find is here, which says that swayidle configuration is controlled by the regolith-control-center Power menu. Perhaps the implication is that swayidle is completely inaccessible outside of that utility. Ideally, I would like to be able to customize behavior on resume with custom commands, etc.

Thank you for any help!

[austinweisgrau]

Today I ran "sudo apt update" and "sudp apt install sway" and swayidle is now working!

However, separate issue, apt is considering most of regolith sway to be deserving of removal, not sure what's going on there. Will make a separate issue for that.

[kgilmer]

@SoumyaRanjanPatnaik might there be a missing dependency for swayidle?

@austinweisgrau Regolith has an unofficial fork of Sway called sway-regolith. You can explicitly install it with apt to keep it from being removed. We do not use the package sway FWIW.

[SoumyaRanjanPatnaik]

My bad for initially misreading this issue. Regolith uses regolith-powerd for managing idle settings. It maintains its own instance of sway idle and keeps it in sync with the idle settings in the gnome-control-center.

When you installed sway, sway-regolith and consequently regolith-powerd must have been removed, which is why swayidleworks for you now. Like @kgilmer said, sway-regolith is a fork of sway, and also a hard dependency for most of thesway session of Regolith.

[haaspors]

@SoumyaRanjanPatnaik Could you point me to where and how regolith is starting regolith-powerd when running sway?

[SoumyaRanjanPatnaik]

Regolith uses regolith-powerd for managing idle settings. It maintains its own instance of swayidle and keeps it in sync with the idle settings in the gnome-control-center. In order to maintain your own swayidle configuration, you need to remove the regolith-powerd package.

[austinweisgrau]

Got it, that all makes a lot of sense, thank you so much for the clarifications!

[pmahnke]

I am having issues with my system never suspending, or only after I open the lid. I notice that when I try to run systemctl suspend I get this error:

systemctl suspend
Operation inhibited by "peter" (PID 3973 "gnome-session-b", user peter), reason is "user session inhibited".

should the command be run with the "-i" flag? or is something else happening?

[pmahnke]

@SoumyaRanjanPatnaik any thoughts?

[SoumyaRanjanPatnaik]

What version of gnome-session-binary do you have? And does this also happen right after a startup?

[pmahnke]

@SoumyaRanjanPatnaik it says 45.0-1ubuntu1 does that make sense? It doesn't happen right after startup.

[SoumyaRanjanPatnaik]

Ohh. Can you figure out a way to reproduce this? Maybe there's a particular app that inhibits idle!!

[pmahnke]

I assume I can just leave my computer untouched and it will happen. How can I trap which app is stopping it?