SwayAudioIdleInhibit

Prevents swayidle from sleeping while any application is outputting or receiving audio. Should work with all Wayland desktops that support the zwp_idle_inhibit_manager_v1 protocol but only tested in Sway

This only works for Pulseaudio / Pipewire Pulse

Install

Arch: The package is available on the AUR

Other:

meson build
ninja -C build
meson install -C build

Sway Usage

# Enables inhibit_idle when playing audio
exec sway-audio-idle-inhibit

Other usages without inhibiting idle

These could be used to monitor if any application is using your mic or playing any audio.

Monitor sources and sinks: will print RUNNING or NOT RUNNING

sway-audio-idle-inhibit --dry-print-both

Monitor sources: will print RUNNING or NOT RUNNING

sway-audio-idle-inhibit --dry-print-source

Monitor sinks: will print RUNNING or NOT RUNNING

sway-audio-idle-inhibit --dry-print-sink

Waybar Integration

A custom waybar module can be used to display an icon when any application is using your mic or playing any audio.

Add the following section to your ~/.config/waybar/config file and add custom/audio_idle_inhibitor to either the modules-left, modules-center or modules-right list.

Note: The FontAwesome font is used for the icons below

	"custom/audio_idle_inhibitor": {
		"format": "{icon}",
		"exec": "sway-audio-idle-inhibit --dry-print-both-waybar",
		"exec-if": "which sway-audio-idle-inhibit",
		"return-type": "json",
		"format-icons": {
			"output": "",
			"input": "",
			"output-input": "  ",
			"none": ""
		}
	},