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Or do you not use one? If so why?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Where I work just switching into a TTY would be enough to keep anyone out.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Whatever comes with GNOME/gdm.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Kscreenlocker because it came as default and I made it look identical to sddm

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I use i3 lock, scrot and imagemagik to make my lock screen a blurred version of my actual screen

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Swaylock, but the one with effects. Using it to leave a blurred picture of the current screen without anything readable. Works well for two years now, is wayland only

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just use XScreenSaver because I haven't ever looked into changing it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Right? XScreenSaver is awesome.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

By screen locker, what do you mean exactly? Do you mean a setting that automatically locks your screen after a preset amount of time? If so, yes I do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

slock. i don't really use anything else from the suckless people, but i like how minimal slock is

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Waylock, because it keeps sway locked even if the screen locker crashes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

None.

Why? Erm, living by myself I don't need to lock myself out ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

None currently, because I live with my family and if I wanted to hide anything from them (which I don't), I could just switch to a tty, or log out. Most of my work is done in VSCodium or Vivaldi, which save their sessions, although I have considered doing one just in case.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've always used i3lock. I also made a script to randomly select a background. Plus the login password circle thing looks cool. Would definitely recommend.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

SDDM 0.20 Wayland mode is awesome!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Whatever one comes with Manjaro KDE.

Because I don't really care.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Physlock because it locks the other vts as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@senslayer As a longtime XFCE user, I've mainly used xflock4. I've tried others over time, but xflock4 is the one that I've used the most....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

i3lock triggered manually with ctrl-alt-L from OpenBox. It's a force of habit to lock it manually, so no timer necessary. I3lock is lightweight, supports a background image, and has a nice fast password prompt with support for ctrl-u etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There was one I used to use that just made the screen black and had no visuals to indicate typing or anything working. Typing the correct password and hitting enter would unlock. I think there was some thing about it not being secure after some shift in typical Linux distro defaults and now I just use the default kde locker because lazy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Swaylock with Hyprland, I just run it from a terminal whenever I want to lock my screen but I guess I should make a keyboard shortcut for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Still haven't gotten around to setting one up but I plan to. Speaking of which, recommendations for Wayland screen lockers that can also act as a screensaver?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I thought that slock was too complicated so I wrote a tiny one for myself in Go using xgb. Less than 100 lines and pretty straightforward but it makes some assumption about my personal setup so not public.

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