mahaveergurjar / hyprlock

Hyprland's GPU-accelerated screen locking utility

hyprlock

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

Features

• uses the secure ext-session-lock protocol
• full support for fractional-scale
• fully GPU accelerated
• multi-threaded resource acquisition for no hitches

How it looks

Docs / Configuration

See the wiki

Building

Deps

You also need the following dependencies

• wayland-client
• wayland-protocols
• mesa

And the development libraries for the following

• cairo
• libdrm
• pango
• xkbcommon
• pam
• hyprlang >= 0.4
• libmagic (file-devel on Fedora)

Development libraries are usually suffixed with -devel or -dev in most distro repos.

You also need to install mesa-libgbm-devel on some distros like RPM based ones where its not bundled with the mesa package.

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