physlock
Lightweight linux console locking tool (by muennich)
xidle-linux
OpenBSD's xidle for Linux (by steinex)
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| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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.
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System hangs on resumption
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.
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Is it possible to use a virtual keyboard while swaylock / lock screen is active?
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.
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swaylock alternatives?
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.
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Kids Find a Security Flaw in Linux Mint by Mashing Keys
I use physlock[0] which locks all of the ttys. I've had no issues.
[1] https://github.com/muennich/physlock
xidle-linux
Posts with mentions or reviews of xidle-linux.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-20.
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Kids Find a Security Flaw in Linux Mint by Mashing Keys
Anecdotally, I use xidle[0] and xlock[1], and have found both to be very reliable. xidle supports locking the screen by sending it SIGUSR1, which is really useful since you can trigger it from a process that doesn't have DISPLAY set.
The trick on laptops is to block on sending the signal in the script you use to suspend, so that when the laptop resumes the display is already locked.
0 - https://github.com/steinex/xidle-linux
1 - http://sillycycle.com/xlockmore.html
What are some alternatives?
When comparing physlock and xidle-linux you can also consider the following projects:
waylock - A small screenlocker for Wayland compositors
xsecurelock - X11 screen lock utility with security in mind
cinnamon-screensaver - The Cinnamon screen locker and screensaver program
dotfiles
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
physlock - Lightweight linux console locking tool
wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library
dotfiles.cli