communism , 9 hours ago

Youtube doesn’t seem to inhibit idle for me for some reason, so my screen would always turn off with swayidle while watching youtube videos. So I made my lockscreen script (which is called by swayidle)

<span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">if </span><span style="color:#62a35c;">[ </span><span style="color:#183691;">"$(</span><span style="color:#323232;">playerctl</span><span style="color:#183691;"> status)" </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">= </span><span style="color:#183691;">"Playing" </span><span style="color:#62a35c;">]</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">; then
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    </span><span style="color:#62a35c;">exit</span><span style="color:#323232;"> 0
</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">else
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    </span><span style="color:#62a35c;">exec </span><span style="color:#183691;">"/path/to/lockscreen/script"
</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">fi
</span>

(lockscreen script was just swaylock called with a bunch of arguments)

Not super crazy compared to some of the things people are saying in the comments, but also definitely not how you’re meant to handle idle inhibition when media is playing lol