automatic reload

[Atemu]

Currently, in order for a change in the hypridle config to apply, one must kill the daemon and re-run it.

It'd be great if hypridle would automatically reload the config when it changes; just like Hyprland.

[vaxerski]

no point, restarting it is trivial

[Atemu]

Not quite, one must resort to hacks like nohup which is annoying to deal with as it litters every directory with .nohup files unless you do the nohup ... > /dev/null dance.

Or is there some other method I'm missing?

[vaxerski]

killall hypridle && hypridle&disown

[Atemu]

That's a good bit better.

Though I'd still like auto reload for the convenience alone.

[vaxerski]

write a script to get the last modified date every second and execute above if it changes?

[Atemu]

Sure you could do that but at that point you might aswell use a service manager...

[vaxerski]

you know that's precisely how it works in hyprland though? xD

[Atemu]

Sorry, I'm not following; how what works in Hyprland?

[vaxerski]

auto-reload. It stats the files every second and reloads if modified date changed

[Atemu]

Ah, yes of course that's how it'd have to work. Though in this case, it'd be integrated into the daemon itself and merely "reloads" rather than tearing everything down and bringing it up again. In the case of Hyprland, tearing it down is simply not possible without user interruption, so that's the only solution while here we can simply restart the daemon without any loss to the user.