Expose idle.screensaver / idle.lock timings in the CLI and menu

[RyanRusnak]

Summary

idle.screensaver and idle.lock in ~/.config/omarchy/shell.json are the only way to change when the screensaver and lock fire. There is no omarchy command for them and no menu row, so the two numbers a new user is most likely to want to change are a hand-edit of a JSON file they have no path to discover.

Where it stands today (4.0.2-1)

• omarchy commands --all has no idle or screensaver setter. omarchy toggle idle is stay-awake on/off only.
• default/omarchy/omarchy-menu.jsonc mentions the screensaver four times, all of them actions or branding — system.screensaver (force it now), trigger.toggle.screensaver, trigger.toggle.idle-lock (Stay Awake), and style.screensaver.{text,image,default}. None touch timing.
• No shell panel exposes them either (the power panel's idle hits are all batteryFlowIdle).
• The keys are documented — at shell/README.md, item 7 "Idle timings are top-level", which is the plugin-authoring guide, next to "version: 1 is required".

The asymmetry

bar sits four lines below idle in the same shell.json and got both surfaces:

• CLI: omarchy bar position <...>, omarchy bar transparent <...>, omarchy bar set <id> <key> <value>
• Menu: Style → Menu Bar → Position / Transparency

idle is two integers and got neither — even though omarchy-shell-config already exposes the source_file / commit helpers that an idle setter would drop straight into.

Proposal

Either half stands alone; the first is the discoverable one, the second is nearly free.

1. A CLI verb

omarchy idle                        # print current screensaver/lock seconds
omarchy idle screensaver <seconds>
omarchy idle lock <seconds>

Built on omarchy-shell-config like the bar commands. Worth rejecting screensaver >= lock, since that silently means the screensaver never appears.

2. A setup.config.shell menu row

"setup.config.shell": {"icon":"󰍜","label":"Shell","action":"omarchy-launch-config-editor \"$HOME/.config/omarchy/shell.json\""},

One line, and it mirrors the existing setup.config.hyprland and setup.config.hyprsunset rows exactly. I run this locally through ~/.config/omarchy/extensions/omarchy-menu.jsonc and it behaves as expected — the editor opens and the shell hot-reloads on save.

Related

• Add default config file menu again #6023 — asks for menu access to the default config file, for the same discoverability reason
• Configurable idle-inhibit behavior in the idle service #8217, Option to disable idle lock permanently #5798 — other idle knobs users want configurable
• Make Omarchy shutdown grace timings configurable #5128 — precedent for making timings configurable rather than fixed

Happy to open a PR for either half if the shape is agreeable.

[RyanRusnak]

I thought there needed to be a more intuitive way to get to the screensaver and lock values so I asked Claude to add an option for the shell config.