swaylock

Screen locking utility for Wayland compositors. More information: <https://manned.org/swaylock>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/swaylock.sh
Alpine
apk add sway
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S sway
Fedora
dnf install sway
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/swaylock
Docker
docker run cmd.cat/swaylock swaylock powered by Commando

Screen locking utility for Wayland compositors. More information: <https://manned.org/swaylock>.

  • Lock the screen showing a white background:
    swaylock
  • Lock the screen with a simple color background (rrggbb format):
    swaylock --color 0000ff
  • Lock the screen to a PNG background:
    swaylock --image path/to/file.png
  • Lock the screen and disable the unlock indicator (removes feedback on keypress):
    swaylock --no-unlock-indicator
  • Lock the screen and don't hide the mouse pointer:
    swaylock --pointer default
  • Lock the screen to a PNG background tiled over all monitors:
    swaylock --image path/to/file.png --tiling
  • Lock the screen and show the number of failed login attempts:
    swaylock --show-failed-attempts
  • Load configuration from a file:
    swaylock --config path/to/config

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