Comment by emersion

3 years ago

FWIW, swayidle only has an optional dependency on logind. It can be built without. In fact, we're even discussing removing the logind-related features from swayidle. (swayidle never required running as root though.)

Whoops! The Gentoo use flag on swayidle says

    elogind : Enable support for rootless session via elogind

I think this is just a generic description shared between all packages with this flag though!

Maybe I can suggest that this be fixed to reduce confusion.