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Lock screen with swaylock on the Bookworm image

The Bookworm desktop ships without a screen lock; swaylock bound to Ctrl+Alt+L in wayfire.ini fills the gap.

Compatibility
CM4CM5
Difficulty
Easy
Status
Available
Author
blaknite
Added
Source
ClockworkPi forum

What it takes

  • Software only
  • Config change

Difficulty 1 of 3 — easy.

Details

blaknite's recipe: sudo apt install swaylock, then in ~/.config/wayfire.ini set binding_lock=<ctrl> <alt> KEY_L and command_lock=swaylock (add -i some.jpg for a wallpaper). The thread notes that Fn+Esc already locks the keyboard input in hardware, and that hyprlock and gtklock were not in the repository at the time.

Rex's newer images use labwc rather than Wayfire, so the binding goes in labwc's rc.xml instead — see the OSD entry by the same author for that pattern.

Open at Forum thread
  • lock screen
  • Wayfire
  • desktop

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