support for ext-session-lock-v1

[phragment]

I'm trying my hands on adding ext-session-lock-v1 support in the Qtile wlroots backend. (work in progress)

intends to fix: #4976
related: flacjacket/pywlroots#202

[phragment]

I would appreciate your input if my intended approach (reusing logic from the prior layer plus inputinhibitor) is sensible.
Currently I'm struggling with creating a LayerSurface. I'm still in the process of learning the wayland ways / wlroots internals.

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[bodograumann]

Can we reopen this, @m-col ?

[jwijenbergh]

Reopened

[bodograumann]

@phragment I'd be very interested in getting this finished. Unfortunately I do not have any experience with working directly with wayland.

[wahrwolf]

How can I help out here? I really need this feature 😅

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[bodograumann]

Switched to hyprland instead. It also has issues, but at least I can lock the screen now. That feature is essential for any kind of professional usage.

[elParaguayo]

Wayland backend is being rewritten so should be able to support this when it's done. However, I totally understand why qtile doesn't meet your needs in its current form.

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[elParaguayo]

New Wayland backend includes support for session lock.

[nickeisenberg]

Is session lock supposed to work now? I am still getting this with gtklock

(venv) nicholas@fedora:builddir(master)$ ./gtklock

** (gtklock:5904): WARNING **: 09:06:37.128: It appears your Wayland compositor does not support the Session Lock protocol

** (gtklock:5904): CRITICAL **: 09:06:37.128: Your compositor doesn't support ext-session-lock

this is with qtile 0.33 on fedora42 with wayland

[jwijenbergh]

It's supported on the current qtile master branch

[elParaguayo]

@nickeisenberg The new Wayland backend is not in 0.33. You need to be on the latest git version for this (or wait for 0.34).

[nickeisenberg]

Thank you! I built from source on master and gtklock works now. @elParaguayo @jwijenbergh