Hello Lock 0.6.3 for Omarchy

• The Caps Lock badge and the failure hint now work on keyboards with no Caps
  Lock LED. Caps Lock is read from hyprctl devices -j (the main keyboard,
  else any keyboard that reports it) on the existing 400 ms refresh; the LED is
  still the fallback when hyprctl is unavailable or lists no keyboards. No
  change to the password, fingerprint or PAM code.

Works on Omarchy 4.0.x and 4.5. Update with omarchy plugin update hello-lock, then restart the shell.

Hello Lock 0.6.2 for Omarchy

• Waking from sleep no longer flashes the desktop before the lock screen.
  Locking for suspend (lid closed, sleep from the menu) now skips the
  power-down effect: its desktop capture finished after resume and the effect
  replayed the old desktop over the lock screen. bin/hello-snapshot asks
  logind whether the system is preparing for sleep, and the service drops any
  capture that lands more than 2.5 s after the lock started (a suspend
  happened in between). Locking by hand still plays the effect.

Works on Omarchy 4.0.x and 4.5. Update with omarchy plugin update hello-lock, then restart the shell.

Hello Lock 0.6.1 for Omarchy

Omarchy 4.5 compatibility; still works on Omarchy 4.0.6. No change to the
password, fingerprint or PAM code, or to the lock/unlock lifecycle.

• Menu: Omarchy 4.5 renamed the menu's Style section to Appearance, which hid
  Hello Lock's style.lockscreen entry. bin/hello-menu now reads the section
  from the installed Omarchy's own menu ($OMARCHY_PATH/default/omarchy/omarchy-menu.jsonc)
  and writes appearance.lockscreen or style.lockscreen to match (Style when
  that file can't be read, as before). Its own entry under either key counts as
  on. New hello-menu migrate renames only the key of Hello Lock's own entry,
  with the usual private backup, when the installed section is known and nobody
  else's entry holds it; the service runs it on load in place of secure (which
  it still does first). remove takes Hello Lock's entry from either section.
  New hello-menu section prints Appearance or Style; Settings and the setup
  use it for their wording. After updating to Omarchy 4.5, expect one automatic
  edit of ~/.config/omarchy/extensions/omarchy-menu.jsonc when the shell
  loads Hello Lock (backed up first).
• hello-lock-doctor reports where the menu entry is and warns when Hello
  Lock's own entry is under a section the installed Omarchy doesn't have.
• Video wallpapers (new in Omarchy 4.5) couldn't be drawn as an image, so the
  lock showed a flat colour. When Omarchy's shell/plugins/lock/poster.sh
  exists, the lock, its preview, the unlock splash and the setup now show the
  video's cached still frame from that script, as the stock 4.5 lock does
  (the plain background colour shows until it is ready or if it fails).
  Without the script (Omarchy 4.0) the wallpaper path is used as before.
• README: Appearance → Lock Screen (Style on Omarchy 4.0); the fingerprint flow
  is described as derived from Omarchy 4.0.6 rather than identical to the
  current Omarchy's; supported Omarchy versions noted.

Verified live on a fresh Omarchy 4.5.0 install (lock, wrong-password rejection, unlock, Appearance menu entry); Omarchy 4.0.6 behaviour is covered by the test suite.
Update with omarchy plugin update hello-lock, then restart the shell.

Hello Lock 0.6.0 for Omarchy

Hello Lock 0.6.0 brings the Settings Studio, synth typing sounds and refined unlock motion to the Omarchy plugin, with immediate post-PAM unlock, optional overlay timing, explicit Settings reload and a shared visual platform. Lock-loss recovery is included; compositor-forced release can still expose a gap before recovery.

This is the Omarchy plugin source release. The marketplace update request #13795 passed compatibility validation. Its security baseline reports no findings and requires maintainer review of the optional installer/service-management capabilities. GitHub publication is not marketplace approval; the previous marketplace snapshot remains authoritative until promotion succeeds. A shell restart is required after plugin code updates; ordinary Settings saves apply through explicit reload.

• Installation/removal and features
• 45-second visual demo
• Full changelog
• Standalone technical preview downloads — a separate password-only Hyprland/Sway host, not the Omarchy plugin installation.

Validation: 128 Python tests, both JavaScript suites and plugin validation passed. The service implementation matches the separately recorded real guest PAM/lock-loss test; physical fingerprints and physical monitor coverage remain unverified. The separate AI review covers the standalone scope, not a human audit of the whole Omarchy shell.

Exact source commit: 1959e1ff99785df6fabf47a9853ea43950ce711d.

Standalone technical preview 1

Hello Lock can now run without Omarchy in a supported Hyprland or Sway session. This technical preview includes standalone Settings/visual previews and a real PAM password locker, saved branding rotation, optional sound/status/weather, automatic motion, private best-effort CRT capture and opt-in idle/logind integration.

Downloads and setup

Download the native package for your tested configuration, SHA256SUMS, and SETUP.md. Verify the selected file with sha256sum --ignore-missing -c SHA256SUMS before installation.

• Arch / CachyOS: .pkg.tar.zst (tested with Hyprland).
• Fedora 44: .rpm (tested with Sway pixman/QXL/Mesa).
• Debian format: .deb is experimental; Debian/Ubuntu runtime is unverified, with compatible Quickshell dependency/image-validation blockers.
• Tarball: filesystem payload for inspection/staging, not an unattended installer.
• Demo: hello-lock-standalone-demo.mp4 shows real visual previews and the standalone Studio; authentication was tested separately, not filmed.

Native version 0.5.3-0.preview1 is independent of the Omarchy plugin version. These are the exact package files tested in guests, not renamed or rebuilt versions. Dependencies are declared by each native package. Packages install the managed hello-lock PAM include policy but do not edit the login policy, enable idle, replace another locker or configure your compositor. Review SETUP.md before enabling real locking. Preferences are retained on removal.

Evidence and limitations

• Arch / Hyprland: 34 checks passed.
• Genuine CachyOS / Hyprland: 34 checks passed.
• Fedora 44 / Sway: 32 checks passed.

Disposable guests exercised native package installation/removal, real wrong/correct PAM passwords, recovery, capture cleanup, idle/logind and kernel-confirmed s2idle. TEST-RESULTS.json contains exact versions, assertions and runtime-payload identity.

A compositor-forced release may expose a gap before userspace recovery. This preview is not proof of uninterrupted protection. Fedora evidence uses the documented software renderer; earlier default-renderer failures are not all root-caused. Physical GPU/hotplug/fingerprints, deep S3, physical audio, live weather and Debian/Ubuntu runtime remain unverified. Forecast/audio policy transports were fixtures. Standalone supports one hidden PAM password prompt, not arbitrary MFA. A separate AI review found no reproducible new defect in scope; it is not a human security audit.

Support scope · Detailed setup/removal · Review and evidence

Source commit: 1959e1ff99785df6fabf47a9853ea43950ce711d. Runtime payload SHA-256: df0aea3ac37bbf4ee913579859851421872c01522f5c06a24f956d04293032a4.