ScreenGuard
by Aditya Krishnan
Digital Wellbeing, Daily Time Limits & Focus Mode for Linux
About
ScreenGuard brings active Android-style Digital Wellbeing, App Limit Lockouts, and Focus Mode Pomodoro Session Blocking directly to the Linux desktop. Features include: - Digital Wellbeing Dashboard with 30-day cumulative trends - Interactive 7-day bar chart with week-by-week history navigation - Daily App Limits with 90% warning alerts and 100% lockout screen - Focus Mode with animated Pomodoro countdown timer and distraction blocker - 100% local, private SQLite storage
Permissions
3 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.
- unrestricted access to the session D-Bus (all your running apps)
--socket=session-bus - X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
--socket=x11 - full access to your home folder
--filesystem=home - Wayland display
--socket=wayland - GPU acceleration
--device=dri
Who publishes this
Nobody has confirmed that the publisher controls this app id. Flatsonar warns before installing.
- org.screenguard.ScreenGuard claims the domain screenguard.org; only its owner can prove that
publisher:namespace - installs a prebuilt binary instead of building from source
source:prebuilt
Maintenance
Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.
No staleness signals: recent activity, or built and reviewed by Flathub.