Is it possible to turn off the screen?

[jumpinggoofballs]

Use case: sometimes I will walk away from my laptop and would like to turn off the screen to reduce batter usage.

GNOME and KDE Plasma both allow you to do this with a keyboard shortcut. I've seen seen the idle plugin, but I am not sure if it does actually do this. Plus, I never use any idle mechanisms, as I prefer to press the button myself.

[ammen99]

It will be possible once I implement #444, I plan to do that soon and I'll update this issue with an example.

[jumpinggoofballs]

Awesome, thanks!

[ammen99]

Hmm, so I implemented the protocol, the situation is still not the best, but I think you can achieve what you want.

So basically you can use swayidle + a client to turn monitors on and off from here: swaywm/wlroots#2202.

Together everything looks like:

[autostart]
lockscreen = swayidle timeout 0 'output-power-management -d && swaylock' resume 'output-power-management -e'

[command]
command_1 = sleep 1 && pkill -USR1 swayidle

Obviously, you can change swaylock to any command you'd like.

[ghost]

Hi!
I don't have a command called output-power-management..
I am using the AUR package, wayfire 0.7.
From the releason notes on the website, it seem to be integrated since version 0.5

[AdrianVovk]

@qwuy1290 The command is part of the wlroots examples. No idea if it's packaged for Arch; might need to be built from source