hyprlock

hyprlock

Hyprland's simple, yet multi-threaded and GPU-accelerated screen locking utility.

Features

• Uses the ext-session-lock protocol
• Support for fractional-scale
• Fully GPU accelerated
• Multi-threaded resource acquisition
• Blurred screenshot as the background
• Native fingerprint support (using libfprint's dbus interface)
• Some of Hyprland's eyecandy: gradient borders, blur, animations, shadows, etc.
• and more...

How it looks

Docs / Configuration

See the wiki

Arch install

pacman -S hyprlock # binary x86 tagged release
# or
yay -S hyprlock-git # compiles from latest source

Building

Deps

You need the following dependencies

• cairo
• hyprgraphics
• hyprlang
• hyprutils
• hyprwayland-scanner
• mesa (required is libgbm, libdrm and the opengl runtime)
• pam
• pango
• sdbus-cpp (>= 2.0.0)
• wayland-client
• wayland-protocols
• xkbcommon

Sometimes distro packages are missing required development files. Such distros usually offer development versions of library package - commonly suffixed with -devel or -dev.

Building

Building:

cmake --no-warn-unused-cli -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Release -S . -B ./build
cmake --build ./build --config Release --target hyprlock -j`nproc 2>/dev/null || getconf _NPROCESSORS_CONF`

Installation:

sudo cmake --install build