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Lock Screen Explorer v2.0.8

Keep the session locked until authentication succeeds, even if a design signals that its unlock animation has finished.

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5 to fix

`omarchy-shell lock setKeepDisplayOn on` now actually enables the setting; `off`, `true`/`false` and `1`/`0` are accepted. Other values return `invalid-value` and leave the setting unchanged.

Behavior changedAffects: Users or scripts calling setKeepDisplayOn
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Boot-screen rotation no longer installs or uses a passwordless background helper; each change requires the normal authentication prompt.

Behavior changedGive the disk decryption passphrase screen at boot the same look as your lock screen.Affects: Users of boot-screen rotation
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Accept the one-time password prompt on first unlocked startup to remove an old rotation helper. Canceling defers removal until a later start; `omarchy-shell lock removeBootRotationHelper` removes it manually.

Action requiredGive the disk decryption passphrase screen at boot the same look as your lock screen.Affects: Users who previously installed the passwordless boot-rotation helper
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Music, the media strip and designer album art accept only local files or HTTPS PNG, JPEG, WebP or GIF covers up to 8 MiB. Failed processing shows a placeholder instead of the cover.

Behavior changedPause, resume or skip tracks from the lock screen.Affects: Users displaying media cover art
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Install ImageMagick with the `magick` command if missing; cover-art processing otherwise fails and shows a placeholder.

Action requiredPause, resume or skip tracks from the lock screen.Affects: Users displaying cover art without ImageMagick installedInferred
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Keep custom QML designs as plain files no larger than 1 MiB; larger files are no longer loaded.

Action requiredCopy a design and edit its QML in a built-in editor with a live preview.Affects: Users with custom QML designs larger than 1 MiBInferred
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Rename custom boot layouts to 1–64 ASCII letters, digits, underscores or hyphens; names outside this pattern are now rejected by layout loading and saving.

Action requiredGive the disk decryption passphrase screen at boot the same look as your lock screen.Affects: Users with manually named boot layouts outside the accepted patternInferred
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What changed in v2.0.8

v2.0.4 gates unlock completion on authentication and honors lock requests during unlock animations. v2.0.5 prompts to remove old passwordless boot-rotation helpers; v2.0.6 adds `setBootClock show|hide` and `setBootShutdown design|plain`.

Also: Boot snapshots show passphrase progress on every display and can hide frozen clocks; shutdown can use a plain splash. The owner-message field accepts typing again, and cover art has stricter limits.

v2.0.8 for Omarchy 4. Update the plugin and restart the shell; existing boot-rotation helpers trigger a one-time password prompt for removal.

Fixed and improved

A design's animation-finished signal no longer unlocks without authentication. A lock requested during the unlock animation now takes effect instead of being dropped.

Now worksBrowse lock screen designs, preview them full size and switch the lock screen to one.
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Turning the bar icon on or off preserves stricter existing `shell.json` permissions, such as `0600`; installer-written menu, launcher and icon files also retain stricter permissions.

Now worksBrowse lock screen designs, preview them full size and switch the lock screen to one.
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Hide the frozen snapshot clock, date and day-dependent artwork with `setBootClock hide`; `show` remains default. Use `setBootShutdown plain` for a background-only reboot/shutdown splash; `design` remains default.

ImprovedGive the disk decryption passphrase screen at boot the same look as your lock screen.
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Snapshot boot screens show passphrase dots and the post-Enter wait arc on every display, sized to that display's design. Boot-tab Clip length choices now set the clip duration.

Now worksGive the disk decryption passphrase screen at boot the same look as your lock screen.
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The Settings message field keeps keyboard focus until Enter saves or Escape cancels, so typed changes reach it.

Now worksShow a contact message on every lock screen design for whoever finds the computer.
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Seeded by @iluxav with Codex, from the release's public sources. Each change links to its evidence.

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