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Saphira

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Registered: 2022-11-16

Posts: 11

[SOLVED] SwayIDLE not working when i close my thinkpad

Hey,

i am new to Arch. I used for a few years Manjaro. A few weeks ago i bought me an "new" Thinkpad (T460) and I installed Manjaro Sway and it was sucking that I didnt knew really much about the settings and so on.

So i installed a few days ago Arch with/and Sway.

Its very cool but I have some problems. For the most problems google is very helpful but I cant fix the problem with SwayIDLE...

When i run swayidle -w before-sleep 'swaylock -F -l -f -c 000000' in the terminal and I am closing my notebook and waiting still its in suspend mode and open it again its locked.

But when I have in the sway conf the line:

exec swayidle -w before-sleep 'swaylock -F -l -f -c 000000'

it didn't work. I also tried a reboot but its still doesn't work...

The shortcut

bindsym $mod+l exec $lock

is working and set $lock swaylock -F -l -f -c 000000 . I also first tried exec swayidle -w before-sleep '$lock', but because it was not working i tried the full command instead of the var...

Do someone have an idea why its not working?

Thank and sorry for the worse english

Greetings
Saphira

Last edited by Saphira (2022-11-17 14:02:43)

Saphira

Member

Registered: 2022-11-16

Posts: 11

Re: [SOLVED] SwayIDLE not working when i close my thinkpad

Okay I found a solution:

With " instead of ' it is working!

Now is also

exec swayidle -w before-sleep "$lock"

Working!