betterlockscreen VS xidlehook

I use betterlockscreen :)

My only problem right now is that I absolutely hate how i3lock looks. I tried follow the installation steps of betterlockscreen to try to have it replaced. I have so far managed to setup a keybind that locks my machine using betterlockscreen.

service?https://github.com/betterlockscreen/betterlockscreen

I'm looking for a lock screen for my laptop. Previously I used betterlockscreen on Arch with systemd, but I really don't understand how to make it work with runit.

looks like betterlockscreen but i don't know whether it has sway compatibility

For my use I didn't really encounter that many issues. I used OpenRC, and had some issues with betterlockscreen, but I think I solved it fairly fast with xss-lock. Since I also a MX Master 3 I had some issues with having the logiops daemon start a startup, but also this wasn't much of an issue because of the Gentoo forums.

You should be able to disable screen locking in the DE's settings. Someone mentioned it in this GitHub issue

I'm using xidlehook suggested script that you can find here with betterlockscreen instead of i3lock

While I was using awesome I used a slightly modified systemd file from betterlockscreen which looks like this:

With xidlehook you can do that:

You can use xautolock, or xidlehook

Try xidlehook. Use the script given in README.

https://github.com/jD91mZM2/xidlehook :)

Not sure if you've seen xidlehook but it works well and is also written rust. I see it hasn't been updated in a while, maybe it can inspire you.

Could likely use https://github.com/jD91mZM2/xidlehook to dim it just before suspend, then watch xprintidle until it goes below 1000 to show that you're active again, and bring the brightness up