swaylock is a screen locking utility for Wayland compositors. It is compatible with any Wayland compositor which implements the following Wayland protocols:
- wlr-layer-shell + wlr-input-inhibitor, or ext-session-lock-v1
- xdg-output
See the man page, swaylock(1), for instructions on using swaylock.
Releases are signed with E88F5E48 and published on GitHub. swaylock releases are managed independently of sway releases.
Swaylock is available in many distributions. Try installing the "swaylock" package for yours.
Install dependencies:
- meson *
- wayland
- wayland-protocols *
- libxkbcommon
- cairo
- gdk-pixbuf2 **
- pam (optional)
- scdoc (optional: man pages) *
- git *
* Compile-time dep
** Optional: required for background images other than PNG
Run these commands:
meson build
ninja -C build
sudo ninja -C build install
On systems without PAM, you need to suid the swaylock binary:
sudo chmod a+s /usr/local/bin/swaylock
Swaylock will drop root permissions shortly after startup.