swaylock(1) General Commands Manual swaylock(1) NAME swaylock - Screen locker for Wayland SYNOPSIS swaylock [options...] Locks your Wayland session. OPTIONS -C, --config The config file to use. By default, the following paths are checked: $HOME/.swaylock/config, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/swaylock/config, and SYSCONFDIR/swaylock/config. All flags aside from this one are valid options in the configuration file using the format long- option=value. For options such as ignore-empty-password, just supply the long-option. All leading dashes should be omitted and the equals sign is required for flags that take an argument. -d, --debug Enable debugging output. -e, --ignore-empty-password When an empty password is provided, do not validate it. -F, --show-failed-attempts Show current count of failed authentication attempts. -f, --daemonize Detach from the controlling terminal after locking. Note: this is the default behavior of i3lock. -h, --help Show help message and quit. -v, --version Show the version number and quit. APPEARANCE -u, --no-unlock-indicator Disable the unlock indicator. -i, --image [[]:] Display the given image, optionally only on the given output. Use -c to set a background color. If the path potentially contains a ':', prefix it with another ':' to prevent interpreting part of it as . -k, --show-keyboard-layout Display the current xkb layout while typing. -K, --hide-keyboard-layout Force hiding the current xkb layout while typing, even if more than one layout is configured or the show-keyboard-layout option is set. -L, --disable-caps-lock-text Disable the Caps Lock text. -l, --indicator-caps-lock Show the current Caps Lock state also on the indicator. -s, --scaling Image scaling mode: stretch, fill, fit, center, tile, solid_color. Use solid_color to display only the background color, even if a background image is specified. -t, --tiling Same as --scaling=tile. -c, --color Turn the screen into the given color instead of white. If -i is used, this sets the background of the image to the given color. Defaults to white (FFFFFF). --bs-hl-color Sets the color of backspace highlight segments. --caps-lock-bs-hl-color Sets the color of backspace highlight segments when Caps Lock is active. --caps-lock-key-hl-color Sets the color of the key press highlight segments when Caps Lock is active. --font Sets the font of the text. --font-size Sets a fixed font size for the indicator text. --indicator-idle-visible Sets the indicator to show even if idle. --indicator-radius Sets the indicator radius. The default value is 50. --indicator-thickness Sets the indicator thickness. The default value is 10. --indicator-x-position Sets the horizontal position of the indicator. --indicator-y-position Sets the vertical position of the indicator. --inside-color Sets the color of the inside of the indicator. --inside-clear-color Sets the color of the inside of the indicator when cleared. --inside-caps-lock-color Sets the color of the inside of the indicator when Caps Lock is active. --inside-ver-color Sets the color of the inside of the indicator when verifying. --inside-wrong-color Sets the color of the inside of the indicator when invalid. --key-hl-color Sets the color of the key press highlight segments. --layout-bg-color Sets the background color of the box containing the layout text. --layout-border-color Sets the color of the border of the box containing the layout text. --layout-text-color Sets the color of the layout text. --line-color Sets the color of the line between the inside and ring. --line-clear-color Sets the color of the line between the inside and ring when cleared. --line-caps-lock-color Sets the color of the line between the inside and ring when Caps Lock is active. --line-ver-color Sets the color of the line between the inside and ring when verifying. --line-wrong-color Sets the color of the line between the inside and ring when invalid. -n, --line-uses-inside Use the inside color for the line between the inside and ring. -r, --line-uses-ring Use the ring color for the line between the inside and ring. --ring-color Sets the color of the ring of the indicator when typing or idle. --ring-clear-color Sets the color of the ring of the indicator when cleared. --ring-caps-lock-color Sets the color of the ring of the indicator when Caps Lock is active. --ring-ver-color Sets the color of the ring of the indicator when verifying. --ring-wrong-color Sets the color of the ring of the indicator when invalid. --separator-color Sets the color of the lines that separate highlight segments. --text-color Sets the color of the text. --text-clear-color Sets the color of the text when cleared. --text-caps-lock-color Sets the color of the text when Caps Lock is active. --text-ver-color Sets the color of the text when verifying. --text-wrong-color Sets the color of the text when invalid. SIGNALS SIGUSR1 Unlock the screen and exit. AUTHORS Maintained by Drew DeVault , who is assisted by other open source contributors. For more information about swaylock development, see https://github.com/swaywm/swaylock. 2023-01-28 swaylock(1)