logind

Desktop Independent Power Manager

Swayidle alternative to handle wayland idle notifications, sleep and lock events in Rust with Lua scripting based configuration language

A collection of info about session management with logind

General purpose X11 Login and Display Manager built on the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) for X11 and Wayland sessions

A X11 Screensaver (and more) that actually does what I want.

The only GUI for setting up and managing multiseat on Linux.

A simple systray applet to prevent the system from going idle or suspending on demand (including on laptop lid closure).

Lock systemd sessions when laptop is shake

logind wrapper for ConsoleKit

A single static binary as PID 1 for Linux — services supervised by a weight-state machine, no systemd. Reclaims its satellite daemons too, as native opt-in replacements: logind, udev, dbus, journald. PID 1 holds 1–4 MB RSS in one thread, frees ~500 MB RAM, and idle cores reach 92–99% C10 deep sleep.

proof-of-concept systemd-logind replacement

NetBSD Power Daemon

Power your AI coding agents with persistent memory, encrypted secrets, and task control in one local OS-like tool

GNOME Shell extension: keep awake, lid close, screen off, lock, sleep and hibernate in one top-bar menu

X11 idle/sleep inhibition daemon

Simple utility to control backlight devices on Linux through logind

Car-alarm-style intrusion guard for Linux desktops: a USB or Bluetooth remote arms a guard that locks your session, and touching the machine trips a countdown, a siren and a timestamped webcam still.

lidctl — A safe, one-click lid-suspend toggle for Ubuntu/GNOME. Disable lid-suspend to run Docker/servers with the lid closed, without the sudo wildcard risk or GUI-crash bugs of naive systemd-logind scripts.

Seat, session and process lifecycle for a Linux desktop in C++20: libseat/logind device access, session state, systemd user environment and units, inhibitors, idle tracking and XDG autostart.