hyprland-wiki/pages/Hypr Ecosystem/hypridle.md

hypridle is hyprland's idle management daemon.

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Configuration

Configuration is done via the config file at ~/.config/hypridle.conf. A config file is required; hypridle won't run without one.

General

Variables in the general category:

variable	description	type	default
lock_cmd	command to run when receiving a dbus lock event (e.g. loginctl lock-session)	string	empty
unlock_cmd	command to run when receiving a dbus unlock event (e.g. loginctl unlock-session)	string	empty
before_sleep_cmd	command to run when receiving a dbus prepare_sleep event	string	empty
after_sleep_cmd	command to run when receiving a dbus post prepare_sleep event	string	empty
ignore_dbus_inhibit	whether to ignore dbus-sent idle inhibit events (e.g. from firefox)	bool	false

Listeners

Hypridle uses listeners to define actions on idleness.

Every listener has a timeout (in seconds). After idling for timeout seconds, on-timeout will fire. When action is resumed after idle, on-resume will fire.

Example listener:

listener {
    timeout = 500                            # in seconds
    on-timeout = notify-send "You are idle!" # command to run when timeout has passed
    on-resume = notify-send "Welcome back!"  # command to run when activity is detected after timeout has fired.
}

You can define as many listeners as you want.