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50 lines
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# swaylock
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swaylock is a screen locking utility for Wayland compositors. It is compatible
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with any Wayland compositor which implements the ext-session-lock-v1 Wayland
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protocol.
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See the man page, `swaylock(1)`, for instructions on using swaylock.
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## Release Signatures
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Releases are signed with [E88F5E48](https://keys.openpgp.org/search?q=34FF9526CFEF0E97A340E2E40FDE7BE0E88F5E48)
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and published [on GitHub](https://github.com/swaywm/swaylock/releases). swaylock
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releases are managed independently of sway releases.
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## Installation
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### From Packages
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Swaylock is available in many distributions. Try installing the "swaylock"
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package for yours.
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### Compiling from Source
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Install dependencies:
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* meson \*
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* wayland
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* wayland-protocols \*
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* libxkbcommon
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* cairo
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* gdk-pixbuf2 \*\*
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* pam (optional)
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* [scdoc](https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/scdoc) (optional: man pages) \*
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* git \*
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_\* Compile-time dep_
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_\*\* Optional: required for background images other than PNG_
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Run these commands:
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meson build
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ninja -C build
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sudo ninja -C build install
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On systems without PAM, you need to suid the swaylock binary:
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sudo chmod a+s /usr/local/bin/swaylock
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Swaylock will drop root permissions shortly after startup.
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