Waylock is a small screenlocker for Wayland compositors implementing
ext-session-lock-v1. The ext-session-lock-v1 protocol is significantly
more robust than previous client-side Wayland screen locking approaches.
Importantly, the screenlocker crashing does not cause the session to be
unlocked.
Install from your package manager
The main repository is on codeberg, which is where the issue tracker may be found and where contributions are accepted.
Read-only mirrors exist on sourcehut and github.
Note: If you are packaging waylock for distribution, see PACKAGING.md.
To compile waylock first ensure that you have the following dependencies installed:
- zig 0.13.0
- wayland
- wayland-protocols
- xkbcommon
- pam
- pkg-config
- scdoc (optional, but required for man page generation)
Then run, for example:
zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseSafe --prefix /usr install
Note that PAM will only use configuration files in the system directory,
likely /etc/pam.d by default. Therefore care must be taken if
installing to a prefix other than /usr to ensure the configuration file
pam.d/waylock is found by PAM.
See the waylock(1) man page or the output of waylock -h for an overview
of the command line options.
Run the waylock executable to lock the session. All monitors will be blanked
with the -init-color. Typing causes the color to change to the
-input-color. Esc or Ctrl-U clears all current input, while backspace
deletes the last UTF-8 codepoint.
To unlock the session, type your password and press Enter. If the password
is correct, waylock will unlock the session and exit. Otherwise, the color
will change to the -fail-color and you may try again.
In order to automatically run waylock after a certain amount of time with no
input or before sleep, the swayidle
utility or a similar program may be used. See the swayidle(1) man page
for details.
Waylock is released under the ISC License.
