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swaylock is a screen locking utility for Wayland compositors. It is compatiblewith any Wayland compositor which implements the ext-session-lock-v1 Waylandprotocol.

See the man page,swaylock(1), for instructions on using swaylock.

Releases are signed withE88F5E48and publishedon GitHub. swaylockreleases 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 buildninja -C buildsudo 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.