What screen locker do you use and why?

Where I work just switching into a TTY would be enough to keep anyone out.

Whatever comes with GNOME/gdm.

Kscreenlocker because it came as default and I made it look identical to sddm

Swaylock, but the one with effects. Using it to leave a blurred picture of the current screen without anything readable. Works well for two years now, is wayland only

I use i3 lock, scrot and imagemagik to make my lock screen a blurred version of my actual screen

By screen locker, what do you mean exactly? Do you mean a setting that automatically locks your screen after a preset amount of time? If so, yes I do.

I just use XScreenSaver because I haven't ever looked into changing it.

slock. i don't really use anything else from the suckless people, but i like how minimal slock is

Waylock, because it keeps sway locked even if the screen locker crashes.

Whatever one comes with Manjaro KDE.

Because I don't really care.

None.

Why? Erm, living by myself I don't need to lock myself out ;)

None currently, because I live with my family and if I wanted to hide anything from them (which I don't), I could just switch to a tty, or log out. Most of my work is done in VSCodium or Vivaldi, which save their sessions, although I have considered doing one just in case.

I've always used i3lock. I also made a script to randomly select a background. Plus the login password circle thing looks cool. Would definitely recommend.

SDDM 0.20 Wayland mode is awesome!

Physlock because it locks the other vts as well.

Swaylock with Hyprland, I just run it from a terminal whenever I want to lock my screen but I guess I should make a keyboard shortcut for it.

I thought that slock was too complicated so I wrote a tiny one for myself in Go using xgb. Less than 100 lines and pretty straightforward but it makes some assumption about my personal setup so not public.

Still haven't gotten around to setting one up but I plan to. Speaking of which, recommendations for Wayland screen lockers that can also act as a screensaver?

@senslayer As a longtime XFCE user, I've mainly used xflock4. I've tried others over time, but xflock4 is the one that I've used the most....

There was one I used to use that just made the screen black and had no visuals to indicate typing or anything working. Typing the correct password and hitting enter would unlock. I think there was some thing about it not being secure after some shift in typical Linux distro defaults and now I just use the default kde locker because lazy

gtklock for sway/wayland

i3lock triggered manually with ctrl-alt-L from OpenBox. It's a force of habit to lock it manually, so no timer necessary. I3lock is lightweight, supports a background image, and has a nice fast password prompt with support for ctrl-u etc.