Swaylock works fine for me. But i prefer something that has password field; can be asterisks or dots, it doesnt matter. The point is if i make a mistake when typing, i can delete a word and correct it, instead of forcing a wrong unlock and try again.
Anything like that and also includes the session lock v1 protocol for Wayland?
13 Comments
Goingdown@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 74d
Why you cannot delete with swaylock? Backspace should work
juipeltje@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 74d
I'm assuming he means that it's harder to tell? But swaylock will still inform you when it's cleared out so idk.
fozid@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 74d
I use gtklock, I spent ages battling swaylock and never liked it.
markstos@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 74d
Gtklock.
juipeltje@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 74d
Another vote for gtklock. I liked it and used it for quite some time. I switched to swaylock-effects a while back purely because i switched to a distro that didn't have gtklock packaged, and i couldn't be bothered to package it myself. After i actually put some effort into ricing it a bit i'm not hating how it looks so i think i'm sticking with it. I suppose you could also try hyprlock since it has a password field as well, but i keep seeing tons of posts that show it crashing, so idk how reliable it is. From what i've seen it can be made to look really good though.
ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 74d
How did you rice swaylock? Would you mind sharing your config?
juipeltje@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 73d
Well i guess rice is a bit of an overstatement, since swaylock/swaylock-effects doesn't have a ton of options besides some coloring mostly, but this is what my config looks like. Some of it like the clock stuff is specific to swaylock-effects. I used a few basic colors from gruvbox, and i use a script that swaps out the colors to different themes that i use. Other than that i just put a blurred version of my wallpaper as the background image that i blurred with imagemagick.
ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 73d
Thanks! I'll give swaylock another chance. I'm currently moving back to sway from the Hypr* ecosystem.
How much do sway{,lock}-effects add to the experience?
juipeltje@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 73d
They have a list on their project page. I pretty much only use the clock and date features right now. It's kind of a shame that the main swaylock project isn't interested in adding a clock. Swaylock-effects also seems to be able to blur images, but i chose to do it with imagemagick instead.
Remus86@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 74d
DankMaterialShell's screenlocker is the only one I know that has the normal input box. But I don't know if there is a way to install/use it standalone. I think you have to pull in the entire dms-shell package. That pulls in quickshell and it's dependencies at the very least.
DankMaterialShell
SpicySquid@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 74d
Not quite an answer that you asked for, but you could use Ctrl+U to clear everything you have typed up to that point and try again without 'forcing a wrong unlock'
PointyFluff@lemmy.ml · -20 pts · 73d
X11
Wayland is hot garbage
wuphysics87@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 72d
Found that guy