Prevents swayidle/hypridle from sleeping while any application is outputting or receiving audio. Requires systemd/elogind inhibit support.

This only works for Pulseaudio / Pipewire Pulse

Arch: The package is available on the AUR

Other:

# Can compile to use systemd or elogind
# systemd (default)
meson setup build -Dlogind-provider=systemd
# or elogind for systemd-less systems
meson setup build -Dlogind-provider=elogind

meson compile -C build
meson install -C build

In addition to the c++ compiler of your choosing:

apt install meson pkgconf libsystemd-dev libpulse-dev

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

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

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": ""
		}
	},