https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprlock
Hyprland's GPU-accelerated screen locking utility
https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprlock
Last synced: 10 months ago
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Hyprland's GPU-accelerated screen locking utility
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprlock
- Owner: hyprwm
- License: bsd-3-clause
- Created: 2024-02-18T16:10:12.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-10-02T10:03:30.000Z (10 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-10-02T12:10:02.854Z (10 months ago)
- Language: C++
- Homepage:
- Size: 668 KB
- Stars: 1,290
- Watchers: 13
- Forks: 118
- Open Issues: 113
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# 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](https://wiki.hyprland.org/Hypr-Ecosystem/hyprlock/)
## Arch install
```sh
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:
```sh
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:
```sh
sudo cmake --install build
```