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?
I use gtklock, I spent ages battling swaylock and never liked it.
Why you cannot delete with swaylock? Backspace should work
I’m assuming he means that it’s harder to tell? But swaylock will still inform you when it’s cleared out so idk.
Not quite an answer that you asked for, but you could use Ctrl+U to clear everything you have typed up to that point and try again without ‘forcing a wrong unlock’
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.
How did you rice swaylock? Would you mind sharing your config?
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.
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?
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.
Gtklock.
DankMaterialShell’s screenlocker is the only one I know that has the normal input box. But I don’t know if there is a way to install/use it standalone. I think you have to pull in the entire dms-shell package. That pulls in quickshell and it’s dependencies at the very least.
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Wayland is hot garbage
