The i3 `exec` line pointed at
/home/kuchy/linux-configuration/scripts/utils/turn_off_auto_idle_screen_shutdown.sh
- a typo'd home ("kuchy") *and* a path that stopped existing when the repo
was reorganised in db6276b. The exec has been failing silently at every
login ever since, so the idle inhibitor was simply not running: a controller
was connected with no "idle-off" lock held, meaning the screen could blank
and lock during controller gaming, which is exactly what the line exists to
prevent.
Point it at the script's real location.
Also make --watch-controller a singleton. It is a long-lived watcher started
from an i3 `exec`, and i3 re-runs those on every `i3-msg restart`, so each
restart would leave another watcher holding a redundant inhibitor for the
rest of the session. One flock, held for the life of the watcher.
Verified: the watcher now holds
idle-off 1000 kuhy <pid> systemd-inhibit idle "game controller connected"
and a second invocation declines instead of stacking a second inhibitor.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Krzysztof kuhy Rudnicki
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