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What is an alternative Wayland screen locker to swaylock , to use on SwayWM? (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Swaylock works fine for me. But i prefer something that has password field; can be asterisks or dots, it doesnt matter. The point is if i make a mistake when typing, i can delete a word and correct it, instead of forcing a wrong unlock and try again.

Anything like that and also includes the session lock v1 protocol for Wayland?

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[–] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Another vote for gtklock. I liked it and used it for quite some time. I switched to swaylock-effects a while back purely because i switched to a distro that didn't have gtklock packaged, and i couldn't be bothered to package it myself. After i actually put some effort into ricing it a bit i'm not hating how it looks so i think i'm sticking with it. I suppose you could also try hyprlock since it has a password field as well, but i keep seeing tons of posts that show it crashing, so idk how reliable it is. From what i've seen it can be made to look really good though.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    How did you rice swaylock? Would you mind sharing your config?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Well i guess rice is a bit of an overstatement, since swaylock/swaylock-effects doesn't have a ton of options besides some coloring mostly, but this is what my config looks like. Some of it like the clock stuff is specific to swaylock-effects. I used a few basic colors from gruvbox, and i use a script that swaps out the colors to different themes that i use. Other than that i just put a blurred version of my wallpaper as the background image that i blurred with imagemagick.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Thanks! I'll give swaylock another chance. I'm currently moving back to sway from the Hypr* ecosystem.

    How much do sway{,lock}-effects add to the experience?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    They have a list on their project page. I pretty much only use the clock and date features right now. It's kind of a shame that the main swaylock project isn't interested in adding a clock. Swaylock-effects also seems to be able to blur images, but i chose to do it with imagemagick instead.

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