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idle-notify: new protocol

Simon Ser requested to merge emersion/wayland-protocols:idle-notify into main

This patch adds a new idle-notify protocol. It allows clients to be notified when the user is idle. Use-cases include messaging applications marking the user as away and clients saving resources when there's no activity.

This protocol is based on the org_kde_kwin_idle interface already being used by KDE and wlroots compositors. The protocol has been sent to wayland-protocols in 2015 1. This version renames and clarifies the interfaces, and addresses the review comments.

Signed-off-by: Simon Ser contact@emersion.fr Closes: #8 (closed)


Potential future work:

  • Consider making the seat argument null-able, to target all seats
  • Consider adding an optional output argument for e.g. DPMS (how to tie that with input though?)

Inclusion requirements:

Edited by Simon Ser

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