swaylock-touch is a touchscreen pinpad screen locking utility for Wayland compositor based on swaywm/swaylock. It is compatible with any Wayland compositor which implements the following Wayland protocols:
- wlr-layer-shell
- wlr-input-inhibitor
- xdg-output
- xdg-shell
See the man page, swaylock-touch(1), for instructions on using swaylock.
Releases are signed with B22DA89A and published on GitHub. swaylock releases are managed independently of sway releases.
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 build
ninja -C build
sudo ninja -C build install
On systems without PAM, you need to suid the swaylock-touch binary:
sudo chmod a+s /usr/local/bin/swaylock-touch
Swaylock-touch will drop root permissions shortly after startup.
Pinpad-based screen locker only accepts numerical passwords. Either set your user password to an all-numeric one or use PAM's separate authorization for the program (e.g. via pam_pwdfile)