supplantr/sessiond repository overview

⁠sessiond

⁠Overview

sessiond is a standalone X session manager that reports the idle status of a graphical session to systemd-logind. It can be used alongside a window manager or desktop environment that does not provide its own session management.

⁠Features

• automatic screen locking on session idle and before sleeping
• automatic backlight dimming on session idle
• systemd targets activated by systemd-logind's lock, unlock, sleep, and shutdown signals
• hooks triggered by inactivity or signals
• a DBus service
• (optional) management of DPMS settings

⁠Documentation

Documentation is available at sessiond.org⁠.

See Session management⁠ to get started using sessiond.

⁠License

sessiond is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later (see LICENSE⁠).