Or do you not use one? If so why?
Physlock because it locks the other vts as well.
By screen locker, what do you mean exactly? Do you mean a setting that automatically locks your screen after a preset amount of time? If so, yes I do.
@senslayer As a longtime XFCE user, I’ve mainly used xflock4. I’ve tried others over time, but xflock4 is the one that I’ve used the most…
I just use XScreenSaver because I haven’t ever looked into changing it.
Right? XScreenSaver is awesome.
Swaylock, but the one with effects. Using it to leave a blurred picture of the current screen without anything readable. Works well for two years now, is wayland only
i3lock triggered manually with ctrl-alt-L from OpenBox. It’s a force of habit to lock it manually, so no timer necessary. I3lock is lightweight, supports a background image, and has a nice fast password prompt with support for ctrl-u etc.
Whatever comes with GNOME/gdm.
SDDM 0.20 Wayland mode is awesome!
I use i3 lock, scrot and imagemagik to make my lock screen a blurred version of my actual screen
Waylock, because it keeps sway locked even if the screen locker crashes.
gtklock for sway/wayland
I tried gtklock for a hot second. Then uninstalled as it does not support ext-session-lock-v1
https://libreddit.oxymagnesium.com/r/swaywm/comments/usheqw/gtklock_gtkbased_lockscreen_for_wayland
Where I work just switching into a TTY would be enough to keep anyone out.
slock. i don’t really use anything else from the suckless people, but i like how minimal slock is
There was one I used to use that just made the screen black and had no visuals to indicate typing or anything working. Typing the correct password and hitting enter would unlock. I think there was some thing about it not being secure after some shift in typical Linux distro defaults and now I just use the default kde locker because lazy
Swaylock with Hyprland, I just run it from a terminal whenever I want to lock my screen but I guess I should make a keyboard shortcut for it.