What is an alternative Wayland screen locker to swaylock , to use on SwayWM?

2026-06-20 18:43 UTC

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?

Replies (7)

@Goingdown@sopuli.xyz 2026-06-20 19:07

Why you cannot delete with swaylock? Backspace should work

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@markstos@lemmy.world 2026-06-20 19:08

Gtklock.

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@Remus86@lemmy.zip 2026-06-20 19:33

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

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@fozid@feddit.uk 2026-06-20 21:04

I use gtklock, I spent ages battling swaylock and never liked it.

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@juipeltje@lemmy.world 2026-06-20 21:32

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.

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@SpicySquid@lemmy.ml 2026-06-20 21:58

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’

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@PointyFluff@lemmy.ml 2026-06-21 02:13

X11 Wayland is hot garbage

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