Does not work with Hyprland?

[jonas-w]

I have switched to Hyprland a few days ago (previously on sway).

And I just noticed, that the awatcher service immediately exits with code 0.

Below the output if I launch awatcher in my terminal: $ awatcher -vvvvv

[2023-11-30 02:07:16.683784 INFO awatcher] Sending to server localhost:5600
[2023-11-30 02:07:16.683795 INFO awatcher] Idle timeout: 180 seconds
[2023-11-30 02:07:16.683797 INFO awatcher] Idle polling period: 5 seconds
[2023-11-30 02:07:16.683798 INFO awatcher] Window polling period: 1 seconds
[2023-11-30 02:07:16.694126 DEBUG watchers::watchers] wl_kwin_idle::IdleWatcher cannot run: the requested global was not found in the registry
[2023-11-30 02:07:16.694338 DEBUG watchers::watchers] x11_screensaver_idle::IdleWatcher cannot run: Unsupported extension
[2023-11-30 02:07:16.694610 DEBUG watchers::watchers::wl_foreign_toplevel] Toplevel handle is received zwlr_foreign_toplevel_handle_v1@4278190080
[2023-11-30 02:07:16.694615 DEBUG watchers::watchers::wl_foreign_toplevel] Toplevel handle is received zwlr_foreign_toplevel_handle_v1@4278190081
[2023-11-30 02:07:16.694617 DEBUG watchers::watchers::wl_foreign_toplevel] Toplevel handle is received zwlr_foreign_toplevel_handle_v1@4278190082
[2023-11-30 02:07:16.694620 TRACE watchers::watchers::wl_foreign_toplevel] Title is changed for zwlr_foreign_toplevel_handle_v1@4278190080: New Issue · 2e3s/awatcher — Mozilla Firefox
[2023-11-30 02:07:16.694621 TRACE watchers::watchers::wl_foreign_toplevel] App ID is changed for zwlr_foreign_toplevel_handle_v1@4278190080: firefox
[2023-11-30 02:07:16.694623 TRACE watchers::watchers::wl_foreign_toplevel] State is changed for zwlr_foreign_toplevel_handle_v1@4278190080: []
[2023-11-30 02:07:16.694625 TRACE watchers::watchers::wl_foreign_toplevel] Done: zwlr_foreign_toplevel_handle_v1@4278190080
[2023-11-30 02:07:16.694627 TRACE watchers::watchers::wl_foreign_toplevel] Title is changed for zwlr_foreign_toplevel_handle_v1@4278190081: coshr 'awatcher -vvvvv'
[2023-11-30 02:07:16.694628 TRACE watchers::watchers::wl_foreign_toplevel] App ID is changed for zwlr_foreign_toplevel_handle_v1@4278190081: footclient
[2023-11-30 02:07:16.694630 TRACE watchers::watchers::wl_foreign_toplevel] State is changed for zwlr_foreign_toplevel_handle_v1@4278190081: [2, 0, 0, 0]
[2023-11-30 02:07:16.694632 TRACE watchers::watchers::wl_foreign_toplevel] Window is activated: zwlr_foreign_toplevel_handle_v1@4278190081
[2023-11-30 02:07:16.694633 TRACE watchers::watchers::wl_foreign_toplevel] Done: zwlr_foreign_toplevel_handle_v1@4278190081
[2023-11-30 02:07:16.694635 TRACE watchers::watchers::wl_foreign_toplevel] Title is changed for zwlr_foreign_toplevel_handle_v1@4278190082: foot
[2023-11-30 02:07:16.694636 TRACE watchers::watchers::wl_foreign_toplevel] App ID is changed for zwlr_foreign_toplevel_handle_v1@4278190082: footclient
[2023-11-30 02:07:16.694638 TRACE watchers::watchers::wl_foreign_toplevel] State is changed for zwlr_foreign_toplevel_handle_v1@4278190082: []
[2023-11-30 02:07:16.694639 TRACE watchers::watchers::wl_foreign_toplevel] Done: zwlr_foreign_toplevel_handle_v1@4278190082
[2023-11-30 02:07:16.694641 INFO watchers::watchers] Selected wl_foreign_toplevel::WindowWatcher as active window watcher
[2023-11-30 02:07:16.694648 INFO watchers::watchers] Starting active window watcher
[2023-11-30 02:07:16.694670 TRACE watchers::report_client] Reporting app_id: footclient, title: coshr 'awatcher -vvvvv'
[2023-11-30 02:07:16.695404 DEBUG watchers::watchers] gnome_idle::IdleWatcher cannot run: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.Mutter.IdleMonitor was not provided by any .service files

It seems to find my active windows, but then exits because of something with gnome?? I don't have gnome installed, though I have nautilus installed which pulls some gnome dependencies, but I also had it installed previously in sway, so this shouldn't be the problem?

[2e3s]

Hi, thank you for your report. If it worked in Sway, then Hyprland should show be the same if it supports the necessary protocols. It doesn't seem that it does:

[2023-11-30 02:07:16.694126 DEBUG watchers::watchers] wl_kwin_idle::IdleWatcher cannot run: the requested global was not found in the registry
[2023-11-30 02:07:16.694338 DEBUG watchers::watchers] x11_screensaver_idle::IdleWatcher cannot run: Unsupported extension
[2023-11-30 02:07:16.695404 DEBUG watchers::watchers] gnome_idle::IdleWatcher cannot run: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.Mutter.IdleMonitor was not provided by any .service files

Only those 3 types are supported. It's still impossible to enable or disable idle and window watchers individually, so after attempt to access Gnome interface it just stops. Sway supports this protocol https://wayland.app/protocols/kde-idle Maybe this would work? https://wayland.app/protocols/ext-idle-notify-v1 The interface seems nearly the same as KWin idle, so I'm implementing it now.

Please, run wayland-info | grep idle. It is available on many distributions: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-utils#wayland-info Here's my output in KDE:

$ wayland-info | grep idle
interface: 'org_kde_kwin_idle',                          version:  1, name: 19
interface: 'zwp_idle_inhibit_manager_v1',                version:  1, name: 20
interface: 'ext_idle_notifier_v1',                       version:  1, name: 21

[2e3s]

Quick testing shows that this protocol works too, so you could try if you have it https://github.com/2e3s/awatcher/releases/tag/v0.2.4-alpha1

[jonas-w]

@2e3s gee, that was fast, thank you!

Though it never shows as idle. I'm running it with -vvvvv, and it always just prints "Reporting as not idle", until swaylock pops up after 60s. swayidle works correctly on Hyprland (i.e. it opens swaylock after 60s because I said so), and it also uses ext-idle-notify

[2e3s]

The default idle timeout is 180 second. Maybe try to run with --idle-timeout=10 or more. It can be changed through CLI or at .config/awatcher/config.toml. But I'm confused what's the problem, or is there a problem yet with the protocols support?

By the way, -vvv is enough to track the switch to idle or resumed state.

[jonas-w]

Ooh, feeling pretty dumb right now, thanks! Didn't realize that awatcher has an idle timeout! Thank you, works as expected ^^