Screensaver, Suspend/Hibernate and hook to lock after then.

[AdsonCicilioti]

Hey guys!

Is there any support or plan from Hyprland to facilitate or implement any screensavers?

Could you address in the documentation an example of how to deal with screensaver/suspend/hibernation and how to call a screen locker when returning from these states?

Thank you and congratulations on the great work with Hyprland!

[vaxerski]

no plan atm for first-party tools like that.

[rukmal]

@vaxerski can you suggest a good jumping off point for writing some docs for this? Happy to take a look.

[poetex]

@AdsonCicilioti I believe the hypridle package supports what you're asking about. It uses a concept of listeners to set/run commands after specific timeout parameters.

Installation

yay -S hypridle

Configuration

touch .config/hypr/hypridle.conf

Then use your favorite text editor to add the configuration. If you just want to enter a lockscreen after a specific amount of time, you could make the conf file as simple as:

general{
    lock_cmd = piodf hyprlock || hyprlock
}

listener{
    timeout = 300
    on-timeout = loginctl lock-session
    on-resume = notify-send "welcome back!"
}

NOTE: This step assumes that you have already installed and configured hyprlock, the hypr ecosystem's simple, yet multi-threaded and GPU-accelerated screen locking utility. Additionally, the "welcome back!" message will only display if you have a notification manager installed and enabled. My personal preference (chosen for it's aesthetic) is sway-nc

You also mentioned screensavers in your original comment. Hypr (per usual) has you covered there as well with hyprpaper. @hyprwm really knew what they were doing when they designed this ecosystem.

Let me know if this response sufficiently answers your inquiry, and if so, I recommend we close this issue.

[poetex]

Also it should be noted that the full hyprland ecosystem wiki can be found here:
https://wiki.hyprland.org/Hypr-Ecosystem

It might be a worthwhile consideration to add this URL to the main page of the hyprland documentation, since a lot of feature inquiries about "does hyprland offer..." could be answered simply by pointing users to the larger hypr ecosystem.

[poetex]

It might be a worthwhile consideration to add this URL to the main page of the hyprland documentation,

Edit: This link is already present on the main index page and included in this repo's pages:
https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprland-wiki/tree/main/pages/Hypr%20Ecosystem