Where I work just switching into a TTY would be enough to keep anyone out.
Whatever comes with GNOME/gdm.
Kscreenlocker because it came as default and I made it look identical to sddm
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
I use i3 lock, scrot and imagemagik to make my lock screen a blurred version of my actual screen
I just use XScreenSaver because I haven't ever looked into changing it.
Right? XScreenSaver is awesome.
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.
slock. i don't really use anything else from the suckless people, but i like how minimal slock is
Waylock, because it keeps sway locked even if the screen locker crashes.
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.
None.
Why? Erm, living by myself I don't need to lock myself out ;)
SDDM 0.20 Wayland mode is awesome!
Whatever one comes with Manjaro KDE.
Because I don't really care.
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.
@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....
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.
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
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.
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?
Physlock because it locks the other vts as well.
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.
Where I work just switching into a TTY would be enough to keep anyone out.
Whatever comes with GNOME/gdm.
Kscreenlocker because it came as default and I made it look identical to sddm
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
I use i3 lock, scrot and imagemagik to make my lock screen a blurred version of my actual screen
I just use XScreenSaver because I haven't ever looked into changing it.
Right? XScreenSaver is awesome.
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.
slock. i don't really use anything else from the suckless people, but i like how minimal slock is
Waylock, because it keeps sway locked even if the screen locker crashes.
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.
None.
Why? Erm, living by myself I don't need to lock myself out ;)
SDDM 0.20 Wayland mode is awesome!
Whatever one comes with Manjaro KDE.
Because I don't really care.
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.
gtklock for sway/wayland
I tried gtklock for a hot second. Then uninstalled as it does not support ext-session-lock-v1
https://libreddit.oxymagnesium.com/r/swaywm/comments/usheqw/gtklock_gtkbased_lockscreen_for_wayland
https://github.com/jovanlanik/gtklock/issues/53
https://isaacfreund.com/blog/2022-02/
@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....
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.
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
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.
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?
Physlock because it locks the other vts as well.
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.