Alternatives
Products that do what FancyLock – Linux screenlock with videos. Wayland support coming soon does
I've been wanting a fancy screen locker for linux, so I built FancyLock, a screen lock solution for Linux with X11 (and soon wayland) support. Key Features - Dynamic media playback during lock screen - Multi-monitor support - PAM-based authentication - Intelligent idle timeout - Highly configurable FancyLock aims to solve several pain points with existing screen lockers: - Boring, static lock screens - Poor multi-monitor support Technical Highlights - Written in Go - Uses X11 extensions for low-level window and input management - Flexible media playback with mpv - Configurable via JSON…
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6PU
After seeing a cool demo of a hack on Twitter, I built a cross platform version of it that works well and uses streaming. From anywhere on Mac and Linux, trigger Ollama and optionally feed it your clipboard. I built it yesterday and it's already very useful to me. I'm pretty excited about it and wanted to share!
2024 · github.com
- 7UM
2017 · github.com
- 8
- 9
- 10KP
I thought it'd be interesting to use Linux PSI (Pressure Stall Information) for an LLM runtime to trim the KV cache. This is mainly useful imo for edge devices like the Jetson Orin super nano kit which have unified memory. I haven't benched much, but plan to do so more over time and see if I can make a real use of it as I run local LLMs. Let me know if it makes sense :P (I of course vibed this idea)
Jun 2026 · github.com
- 11LA
Hey HN, Along with a handful of friends, I've been working on a note taking platform for the last couple years. We created a 2 minute pitch of our platform, if you'd prefer to read, maybe you'd want to checkout our README: https://github.com/lockbook/lockbook. If you don't want to do either of those things I'll try to summarize some of our core values: - everything end to end encrypted - open formats: markdown and svg - strong offline support - everything open source - native apps where possible - rust where possible Some other stuff we're proud of: - we have a CLI which…
2024 · youtube.com
- 12LO
Mar 2026 · github.com
- 13SN
Hi all - Atama software developer here. You may have heard of our Sesame proximity key (http://atama.io/sesame2), which locks your Mac when you walk away (saving you dubious posts on your FaceBook account) and unlocks it when you come back (saving you the drag of entering a password). The app that comes with the hardware has now been updated to include Apple Script support Sesame 2.2 is now out with support for AppleScript. We’ve just released v.2.2 of the app, which adds Apple Script support. We have some example scripts that you can use to get you started, such as: Mute,…
2014
- 14HX
2020 · github.com
- 15EX
Howdy folks! edotool: Simulate keystrokes. X11 and Wayland supported - Please see: https://github.com/evuraan/edotool or https://evuraan.info/edotool/ Cheers!
2021
- 16TL
I'm Dustin Kirkland, author of Byobu[1]. I built Trustmux[2] to solve a personal problem: secure, encrypted access to my tmux[3] and Byobu sessions from my phone, without the pain of other mobile shell approaches. I run long-lived shells, Claude, and other sessions in the background on my workstation, and I needed to check in from mobile — securely, with real TLS certificates and Tailscale-backed privacy, not some insecure workaround. Why not SSH / Mosh / Claude Mobile? - SSH/Mosh: Synchronous connection state is brutal on mobile. Latency, network handoffs between WiFi and…
Jun 2026 · trustmux.dev
- 17AF
Another Sunday afternoon project: add some pizzaz to your boring bare metal or virtual machine consoles! Written as a single Go binary; no dependencies. https://github.com/Fusion/modernfbv As usual, feedback please!
2022
- 18IN
I wrote an article about how to get Nix on your Steam Deck! Big takeaways for me: * Steam Decks are very fun to hack on * Linux Consoles are good * There are more knobs in systemd units than I remember * Flatcar Linux is a thing that exists * Remoting into a console is fun * A/B boots are less interesting than one might expect when you're used to NixOS
2022 · determinate.systems
- 19LL
2015 · signup.linuxgif.com
- 20BT
2020 · github.com
- 21CW
Have you ever played a game or watched a TV show/movie where certain actions like button presses or other events produced different sounds? This is usually done for audience's benefit (more action on screen) or in a game, to enforce the game loop. I wondered if sound effects could be useful in a work environment, in my case `vim`, to influence my brain in a similar way a game loop does things, and make working more "interesting" than procrastination. So I wrote 'chimed', a Python daemon that lets me play sounds on command and added `autocmd` options in `vim` to play sounds when…
2024 · github.com
- 22XP
Here's the latest eBPF performance tool of mine - xstack. It's a minimal tool, just 165 lines of eBPF C and under 500 lines of userland C code (including all comments and boilerplate!). It uses the libbpf and (Rust) BlazeSym libraries though (which are a lot of code). The point (and difference) of this tool is that it can sample both the kernel and userspace stack traces of all threads in your system. Traditionally, the "bpf_get_stack()" helper can not read userspace stack traces of other tasks in Linux, but since Linux 5.18 we can combine sleepable eBPF task iterator programs with a new…
2025 · tanelpoder.com
- 23SA
2015 · play.google.com
- 24TS
Hey HN, I’m excited to share Tiling Shell, an open-source GNOME extension I created to bring a more modern, user-friendly window management experience to Linux. Many existing solutions feel outdated and lack in user experience, so my goal with Tiling Shell is to bring a fresh, integrated approach that works well for both newcomers and advanced users. Demo video: https://youtu.be/RBoO5lgR1kA?t=20 by Omg Ubuntu Key Features: - Easily manage, edit, create, and delete custom layouts with a built-in editor. - Works seamlessly across multiple monitors, even with different scaling…
2024 · github.com
Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Refine with a description →