xautolock alternatives

In the previous articles of the series, I describe how I played with xautolock to use the corners feature

There are other tools than xautolock available that you can use to handle the screensaver behavior.

xautolock

• Simple
• corners feature
• notifier feature
• detectsleep
• not unmaintained

xss-lock

https://bitbucket.org/raymonad/xss-lock

• basic

xidlehook

https://gitlab.com/jD91mZM2/xidlehook

• --not-when-audio feature
• --not-when-fullscreen feature

xssstate

https://tools.suckless.org/x/xssstate/

• very basic
• suckless

Further readings

Once again, you can refer to Arch Linux wiki pages for getting information, even if you are not using Arch Linux distribution.

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management#xss-lock
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/I3#Screensaver_and_power_management
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Session_lock