swaylock-effects
Swaylock, with fancy effects (by mortie)
betterlockscreen
🍀 sweet looking lockscreen for linux system (by betterlockscreen)
| swaylock-effects | betterlockscreen | |
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| 13 | 12 | |
| 677 | 2,410 | |
| - | 0.4% | |
| 0.0 | 3.9 | |
| 5 months ago | 4 months ago | |
| C | Shell | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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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.
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Screenlock grace period
With Swaylock-effects you can use --grace and --fade-in to set some time to react. Hope it helps!
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How to change the swayidle config
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.
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Been using Gentoo for about a week! I've fallen in love with this distro
I use swaylock-effects (github) instead of plain swaylock because I think it looks nicer, worth looking into for eye candy.
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I3 Lock Blur
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.
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swaylock+cmatrix
Might be possible to make it a custom effect for swaylock-effects
- Issue with swaylock
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Audio Visualiser on Lock screen Of Swaylock or any other lock ?
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
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Display blank/black screen few seconds before swaylock
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.
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Is it possible to bind Fn+F1?
I's working when i executing on a terminal. I've this https://github.com/mortie/swaylock-effects
betterlockscreen
Posts with mentions or reviews of betterlockscreen.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-25.
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Locking screen on i3
I use betterlockscreen :)
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How to replace i3wm lockscreen?
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.
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Why this service is failed?
service?https://github.com/betterlockscreen/betterlockscreen
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Cannot make lock screen work in Runit
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.
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How to get swaylock effects to look like this
looks like betterlockscreen but i don't know whether it has sway compatibility
- i3lock alternatives
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Its not about systemd bad becaus unix philosophy!111!!! its about I wanna choose my init system independent from distro of my choise.
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.
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Just wondering what setting a lockscreen service would impact my other DE experience
You should be able to disable screen locking in the DE's settings. Someone mentioned it in this GitHub issue
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i3 to launch script on login
I'm using xidlehook suggested script that you can find here with betterlockscreen instead of i3lock
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Systemd service for swaylock
While I was using awesome I used a slightly modified systemd file from betterlockscreen which looks like this:
What are some alternatives?
When comparing swaylock-effects and betterlockscreen you can also consider the following projects:
betterlockscreen - 🍀 sweet looking lockscreen for linux system [Moved to: https://github.com/betterlockscreen/betterlockscreen]
multilockscreen - :lock: i3lock wrapper with multi-monitor support
swaylock - Screen locker for Wayland
i3lock-fancy - i3lock script that takes a screenshot of the desktop, blurs the background and adds a lock icon and text
WhiteSur-gtk-theme - MacOS Big Sur like theme for Gnome desktops
sway-launcher-desktop - TUI Application launcher with Desktop Entry support. Made for SwayWM, but runs anywhere
dotfiles - My NixOS dotfiles
xidlehook - GitLab: https://gitlab.com/jD91mZM2/xidlehook
capitaine-cursors - An x-cursor theme inspired by macOS and based on KDE Breeze. Designed to pair well with my icon pack, La Capitaine.
i3lock-color - The world's most popular non-default computer lockscreen.
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
CiLocks - Crack Interface lockscreen, Metasploit and More Android/IOS Hacking
swaylock-effects vs betterlockscreen
betterlockscreen vs multilockscreen
swaylock-effects vs swaylock
betterlockscreen vs i3lock-fancy
swaylock-effects vs WhiteSur-gtk-theme
betterlockscreen vs sway-launcher-desktop
swaylock-effects vs dotfiles
betterlockscreen vs xidlehook
swaylock-effects vs capitaine-cursors
betterlockscreen vs i3lock-color
swaylock-effects vs sway
betterlockscreen vs CiLocks