Honestly I am not familiar with Wayland though I have noticed issues on Wayland machines. There is an attempt to solve this issue here #338

Any suggestions are welcomed

I'm not too familiar with it either, but I thought I'd just try and start up a discussion.

I just tested swayidle on Gnome+Wayland and the output states: "Display doesn't support idle protocol" which was expected as swayidle looks for this protocol inside some KDE stuff (see here). Maybe this is about the Gnome implementation (I didn't look into it in detail)?

Becoming more urgent as Ubuntu has just switched to Wayland as default from 21.04 onwards releases.

For anyone not using sway, you can just set XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=sway for safeeyes, but really there's no need to limit the swayidle solution to just sway. (A number of wayland compositors support it)

See #553 - now that ext-idle-notify-v1 is merged and used by swayidle by default, this should be the proper solution.

Any update on this? meldafert's pr seems to fix it.

on KDE 6 in wayland, Safeeyes doesn't work at all. It thinks I'm always idle and thus never triggers any breaks.

I think what's needed is support for kde-idle

@wolftune Can you test with #553?

@meldafert EDIT: it doesn't work.

Update: it allowed breaks at all. Initially, I was missing swayidle and that forced Smart Pause to be turned off

I tested with installing swayidle, and now it does the breaks even if I am idle. Swayidle is running, but it still isn't pausing when I do nothing on the system.

It's NOT working, it needs to support kde-idle

That said, this helped me with a workaround for now: If I turn off Smart Pause, then the regular release version works (but no smart-pause of course). With the #553 change, it works without Smart Pause whether or not Smart Pause setting is on. So, that's at least different.

To review:

• no breaks at all with main version and Smart Pause on (xidle wrongly indicates idle always)
• works with Smart Pause off
• the PR removes the problem with xidle indicating wrong idleness
• swayidle does not actually work in KDE as far as I can tell, kde-idle support is needed

There are other alternatives beyond swayidle (hypridle, for example). Is it better to stop relying on commands to be installed and instead check the current session's idle state via DBus instead?

Then I think it should work for any combination of X11 and Wayland, KDE, Gnome, Sway, Hyprland, etc.?

I have implemented using ext-idle-notify-v1 directly in #576.
@wolftune @Mange Could you test this branch, if it works for you? Please give me feedback on the PR if it does not.

@deltragon I tried to review how to test, but I'm stuck. Can you point me to how to install the version from the branch so I can test it?

I'm testing it right now. I think I'm running the code in the branch after starting it with python3 -m safeeyes, but I don't know how Python works.

In either case, I've left the machine idle for 9 minutes and I have not gotten any short breaks yet. Seems magic.
Right now I'm testing it by actually being active on the machine to see if it still prompts me for a break or not. I've not used SafeEyes for months now due to lack of idle detection, so I'm still getting used to it.