cinnamon-screensaver vs swaylock-effects

cinnamon-screensaver

The Cinnamon screen locker and screensaver program (by linuxmint)

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Swaylock, with fancy effects (by mortie)

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cinnamon-screensaver		swaylock-effects
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64	Mentions	13
150	Stars	672
0.7%	Growth	-
6.6	Activity	0.0
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	5 months ago
Python	Language	C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	MIT License

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cinnamon-screensaver

Posts with mentions or reviews of cinnamon-screensaver. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-16.

Simultaneous cat and external keyboard input causing kernel panic (2011)
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Dec 2023

I misremembered, it was this one, about Linux mint and cinnamon screensaver (used as "lock screen" I guess):
https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver/issues/354
While searching I also found some issues with cat in the Ubuntu bug tracker:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug...
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1463112
Linux Users need to be locked up and tortured for being annoying
2 projects | /r/linuxsucks | 16 Nov 2022
Screensaver lock by-pass via the virtual keyboard (2020)
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Nov 2022
Green Screen of Death
1 project | /r/linuxmint | 26 Oct 2022

I'm not sure what you mean by "green screen of death", that isn't a common complaint. It could be a cinnamon-screensaver bug. An issue there would probably show up in the file ~/.xsession-errors and could be posted to the bug tracker https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver/issues
Trying to make a suspend script but have a catch 22
1 project | /r/linux4noobs | 1 Oct 2022
Lock Screen saver resets display config
1 project | /r/linuxmint | 20 Sep 2022
Linux Mint Debian Edition 5 is here
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Mar 2022

What bug are you referring to? After searching I can only find references to bugs in cinnamon-screensaver and xorg-x11-server that have all been fixed.
- https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-mint-fixes-screensaver-b...
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25712
- https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver/issues/354
Is there another bug that is long-standing and have not yet been fixed?
One of the greatest mysteries of decision-making in Dev ...
1 project | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 11 Mar 2022

There’s also children hacking through the cinnamon screensaver
Can anyone relate? ?
1 project | /r/linuxmemes | 21 Dec 2021
My cat teaches Linux
2 projects | /r/linux | 29 Nov 2021

swaylock-effects

Posts with mentions or reviews of swaylock-effects. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-01.

Screenlock grace period
2 projects | /r/swaywm | 1 Jun 2023

With Swaylock-effects you can use --grace and --fade-in to set some time to react. Hope it helps!
How to change the swayidle config
2 projects | /r/Fedora | 26 Apr 2023

I am using the Fedora 38 Sway Spin and I want to change the swayidle behaviour, because I want to use swaylock-effects instead of swaylock.
Been using Gentoo for about a week! I've fallen in love with this distro
5 projects | /r/Gentoo | 13 Apr 2023

I use swaylock-effects (github) instead of plain swaylock because I think it looks nicer, worth looking into for eye candy.
I3 Lock Blur
3 projects | /r/i3wm | 27 Mar 2023

I know this is gonna be downvoted, but if you decide to move to sway in the future, you have swaylock-effects to do exactly that.
swaylock+cmatrix
2 projects | /r/swaywm | 26 Mar 2023

Might be possible to make it a custom effect for swaylock-effects
Issue with swaylock
3 projects | /r/swaywm | 18 Jan 2023
Audio Visualiser on Lock screen Of Swaylock or any other lock ?
1 project | /r/swaywm | 14 Dec 2022

swaylock-effects on the other hand is designed for fancier stuff, has some built in, and has some hooks for custom effects which you could probably use.
How to get swaylock effects to look like this
2 projects | /r/swaywm | 29 Oct 2022
Display blank/black screen few seconds before swaylock
2 projects | /r/swaywm | 2 Jan 2022

Based on this issue, you're only going to get this from writing a script or something to do it, or try a fork like swaylock-effects or something.
Is it possible to bind Fn+F1?
1 project | /r/swaywm | 30 Sep 2021

I's working when i executing on a terminal. I've this https://github.com/mortie/swaylock-effects