physlock VS cinnamon-screensaver

Compare physlock vs cinnamon-screensaver and see what are their differences.

physlock

Lightweight linux console locking tool (by muennich)

cinnamon-screensaver

The Cinnamon screen locker and screensaver program (by linuxmint)
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physlock cinnamon-screensaver
4 64
284 151
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0.0 6.2
over 2 years ago 21 days ago
C Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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physlock

Posts with mentions or reviews of physlock. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-18.
  • System hangs on resumption
    2 projects | /r/voidlinux | 18 Oct 2021
    When I resume after suspending, the tty prompt for physlock comes up, as intended. When I enter my password, though, it shows the desktop and lets me move around the mouse, but the keyboard does nothing.
  • Is it possible to use a virtual keyboard while swaylock / lock screen is active?
    2 projects | /r/swaywm | 5 May 2021
    I'm not familiar with the PinePhone, but since you're able to use fbkeyboard in VTs, it sounds like physlock might work for you. I just wrote a comment about it in another thread. Unfortunately it's not very amenable to customization.
  • swaylock alternatives?
    5 projects | /r/swaywm | 2 May 2021
    I use and recommend physlock. It's the most security-focused screen locking utility I'm aware of. Upon activation, it switches out of the graphical session and into tty0 which helps mitigate both of your issues. It also locks TTY switching to prevent accessing a logged-in TTY while locked, which is something that I don't think most other screen lockers do.
  • Kids Find a Security Flaw in Linux Mint by Mashing Keys
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jan 2021
    I use physlock[0] which locks all of the ttys. I've had no issues.

    [1] https://github.com/muennich/physlock

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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing physlock and cinnamon-screensaver you can also consider the following projects:

waylock - A small screenlocker for Wayland compositors

WhiteSur-gtk-theme - MacOS Big Sur like theme for Gnome desktops

xsecurelock - X11 screen lock utility with security in mind

xidle-linux - OpenBSD's xidle for Linux

awesome-wlroots - A curated list of tools and compositors for wlroots

sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor

swaylock - Screen locker for Wayland

physlock - Lightweight linux console locking tool

capitaine-cursors - An x-cursor theme inspired by macOS and based on KDE Breeze. Designed to pair well with my icon pack, La Capitaine.

wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library

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