# swaylock

[swaylock][swaylock] is a screen locker for Wayland. [swaylock-effects][swaylock-effects] adds additional features such as blur.

## Use Cases

swaylock can be used to:

- Lock the screen in a reasonable way

You should not use swaylock if:

- You're running on Xorg (use [xsecurelock][xsecurelock] instead)
- You use a desktop environment that already has a screen locker

[swaylock]: https://github.com/swaywm/swaylock
[swaylock-effects]: https://github.com/mortie/swaylock-effects
[xsecurelock]: https://github.com/google/xsecurelock