xidlehook

Because xautolock is annoying to work with.

xidlehook is a general-purpose replacement for xautolock.
It basically just executes a command when the computer has been idle for _ minutes.

Improvments over xautolock:

• As well as a notifier, there is now a canceller, for when the user stops it from locking.
• Not specific to locking. Multiple instances can run at the same time.

Missing features:

• Magic corners
• Killer stuff
• Bell, because you should be using --notify
• All the instance related stuff (-activate, -restart, -exit, etc)

Planned features:

• Optionally prevent locking when an application is fullscreen.
• Optional communication using unix sockets to allow activating and deactivating it.

Example

Here's a lock using i3lock, with screen dim support.

xidlehook \
  --time 5 \
  --timer "i3lock" \
  --notify 10 \
  --notifier  'xrandr --output "$(xrandr | grep primary | cut -d " " -f 1)" --brightness .1' \
  --canceller 'xrandr --output "$(xrandr | grep primary | cut -d " " -f 1)" --brightness 1'