swaylock Command Examples

Screen locking utility for Wayland compositors. More information: https://manned.org/swaylock.

• Lock the screen showing a white background:

swaylock

• Lock the screen with a simple color background (rrggbb format):

swaylock --color {{0000ff}}

• Lock the screen to a PNG background:

swaylock --image {{path/to/file.png}}

• Lock the screen and disable the unlock indicator (removes feedback on keypress):

swaylock --no-unlock-indicator

• Lock the screen and don't hide the mouse pointer:

swaylock --pointer {{default}}

• Lock the screen to a PNG background tiled over all monitors:

swaylock --image {{path/to/file.png}} --tiling

• Lock the screen and show the number of failed login attempts:

swaylock --show-failed-attempts

• Load configuration from a file:

swaylock --config {{path/to/config}}