# swayidle

[swayidle][swayidle] is an idle management daemon for Wayland.

## Use Cases

swayidle can be used to:

- Automatically lock the screen after a period of inactivity
- Automatically lock the screen on lid close (e.g. on a laptop)

You should not use swayidle if:

- You don't want to automatically lock the screen.

[swayidle]: https://github.com/swaywm/swayidle