Not knowing anything about Wayland, I feel more than qualified to respond. :) Under X11, a screen locker wasn't 'secure' in the same way as a login manager. If

Not knowing anything about Wayland, I feel more than qualified to respond. :) Under X11, a screen locker wasn't 'secure' in the same way as a login manager. If the screen-locker/screen saver crashed, the user is still logged on. If the login-manager crashes, nobody is logged on, and it probably just restarts. [0] I think the jist of the article on jwz I linked is that, under X11 anybody can write a screen saver, it doesn't matter what window manager. Under Wayland, the logic of when to start & make secure a screensaver (as opposed to screen lock) would be in in the display-manager or compositer, and there isn't just one of those, and attempting to get all of them to get together and standardize it would be a PITA. [0] https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html [1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/09/wayland-and-screen-savers/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/09/wayland-and-screen-savers/ [2] https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/man1.html#2 https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/man1.html#2