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this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2024
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I use the Cinnamon screen saver with i3wm. It's just a Python script, it's reasonably light in resources, it looks smart enough and it comes with a nice command to remote-control it if you need to start the screen saver, lock or unlock it programmatically.
I'm not sure it works in Wayland though. I only use Xorg. I suppose it should since Cinnamon works in Wayland too now.
I'm specifically looking for something that works with kwin_wayland, this being the KDE instance and all.
The reason why I posted this is because there's nothing that prevents you from using any old screensaver / screenlocker out there in KDE. As I said, I use the Cinnamon screen saver in i3, which is not the Cinnamon environment.
That's the beauty of Linux: you can mix and match things to your heart's content.
I actually did already mention, in Wayland you need to coordinate screen locking with the compositor (kwin), otherwise I'd be using swaylock.
Ah okay, I didn't know that. I personally try to stay away from Wayland as long as possible so support for it gets better before I have to jump in. I'm not an early adopter for that sort of thing - even though Wayland is 16 years old at this point, but amazingly it's still too green for my taste.