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xss-lock

xss-lock is an external screen locker for X11 Window Systems. Using xwayland it can also be used for Wayland systems.

Setup

On most Linux distributions swayidle can be installed with the xss-lock package.

Usage

To run xss-lock it has to be called - preferably after the boot process. An example of this will look like the following. This command makes the system use swaylock if the system is put to sleep.

xss-lock -- swaylock