Betterlockscreen Alternatives

Betterlockscreen is described as 'Sweet looking lockscreen for linux system' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Betterlockscreen for Linux, Qt, Wayland and Rust. The best Betterlockscreen alternative is tuigreet, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Betterlockscreen are nwg-hello, LightDM Elephant Greeter, Sea Greeter and Nody Greeter.

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Betterlockscreen alternatives page was last updated Nov 23, 2024

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tuigreet
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Graphical console greeter for greetd.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
Linux
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nwg-hello
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Nwg-hello is a GTK3-based greeter for the greetd daemon, written in python. It is meant to work under a Wayland compositor, like sway, Hyprland or labwc.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Origin
Poland
EU
Platforms
Linux
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LightDM Elephant Greeter
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A small and simple LightDM greeter using Python and GTK that doesn't require an X11 server.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
Linux
Wayland
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Sea Greeter
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Sea (like C) greeter for LightDM allows to create themes with web technologies, the same as web-greeter, nody-greeter and the outdated lightdm-webkit2-greeter. This project aims to be similar to the last one, as sea-greeter is made with webkit2 instead of chromium.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
Linux
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Nody Greeter
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Web Greeter is created with Python... which sometimes is slow. So, I wanted to re-create it with Node.js!
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
Linux
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Web Greeter
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A modern, visually appealing greeter for LightDM, that allows to create web based themes with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
Linux
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dlm
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A stupid simple graphical login manager. Written in Rust because I felt like it. Uses greetd.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Platforms
Linux
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gtkgreet
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GTK based greeter for greetd, to be run under cage or similar.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Origin
Denmark
EU
Platforms
Linux
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wlgreet
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Raw wayland greeter for greetd, to be run under sway or similar. Note that cage is currently not supported due to it lacking wlr-layer-shell-unstable support.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
Linux
Wayland
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waycratedm
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qml greetd frontend.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
Linux
Qt
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QtGreet
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Qt based greeter for greetd, to be run under wayfire or similar wlr-based compositors.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
Linux
Qt
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Marine Greetdm
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a simple greetd dm cli.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
Linux
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