diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-graphics/wayland/weston-init.bb b/poky/meta/recipes-graphics/wayland/weston-init.bb
index 07cec75..b7a99be 100644
--- a/poky/meta/recipes-graphics/wayland/weston-init.bb
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-graphics/wayland/weston-init.bb
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}"
 
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= ""
+
+PACKAGECONFIG[no-idle-timeout] = ",,"
+
 DEFAULTBACKEND ??= ""
 DEFAULTBACKEND_qemuall ?= "fbdev"
 DEFAULTBACKEND_qemuarm64 = "drm"
@@ -45,6 +49,10 @@
         if [ -n "${DEFAULTBACKEND}" ]; then
 		sed -i -e "/^\[core\]/a backend=${DEFAULTBACKEND}-backend.so" ${D}${sysconfdir}/xdg/weston/weston.ini
 	fi
+
+	if [ "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'no-idle-timeout', 'yes', 'no', d)}" = "yes" ]; then
+		echo "idle-time=0" >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/xdg/weston/weston.ini
+	fi
 }
 
 inherit update-rc.d features_check systemd