diff --git a/docs/OMARCHY.md b/docs/OMARCHY.md
index 1d4eba7..b2bcfc0 100644
--- a/docs/OMARCHY.md
+++ b/docs/OMARCHY.md
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ live cheatsheet — you never have to memorize this table.
 | `SUPER+SHIFT+T` | Next wallpaper |
 | `SUPER+E` | File manager (yazi) |
 | `SUPER+X` | Power menu (lock / suspend / hibernate / reboot …) |
+| `SUPER+CTRL+L` | Lock screen |
 | `SUPER+?` | Keybindings cheatsheet |
 | `Print` | Screenshot region → clipboard |
 | `SUPER+CTRL+<key>` | Jump straight to a menu module (clipboard `V`, calc `C`, emoji `E`, capture `S`, …) |
diff --git a/modules/home/idle.nix b/modules/home/idle.nix
index 67922fc..1ad0def 100644
--- a/modules/home/idle.nix
+++ b/modules/home/idle.nix
@@ -43,7 +43,9 @@ in
           check_color = rgb c.warn;
           fail_color = rgb c.bad;
           rounding = t.ui.rounding;
-          placeholder_text = "<i>password…</i>";
+          # Sentence case, matching the $FPRINTPROMPT label below: both can be
+          # on screen at once, so they must not read as two different voices.
+          placeholder_text = "<i>Password…</i>";
         }];
 
         # The lock screen is deliberately just the clock: the input field
@@ -54,8 +56,8 @@ in
         # started typing.  It needs a surface that is visible at rest, and a
         # label is the one that keeps the clock-only look.  (Confirmed on
         # hardware 2026-07-14: labels do expand $FPRINTPROMPT, so the line is
-        # live — "password… or scan finger", then "scanning finger…" on touch —
-        # and not static text.)
+        # live — the ready message, then the present message on touch — and
+        # not static text.  Both live in auth.fingerprint below.)
         label = [{
           monitor = "";
           text = "$TIME";
@@ -86,11 +88,10 @@ in
         # D-Bus, and `nomarchy.hardware.fingerprint.pam` does not reach it —
         # which is why finger-unlock at the lock screen did nothing at all
         # until this option existed, while sudo took a finger happily.
-        # The wording mirrors sudo's "Enter Password or Place finger" prompt.
         auth.fingerprint = {
           enabled = true;
-          ready_message = "password… or scan finger";
-          present_message = "scanning finger…";
+          ready_message = "Enter password or scan your finger";
+          present_message = "Scanning your finger…";
         };
       };
     };
diff --git a/modules/home/keybinds.nix b/modules/home/keybinds.nix
index 7b94082..0e0827b 100644
--- a/modules/home/keybinds.nix
+++ b/modules/home/keybinds.nix
@@ -57,6 +57,13 @@
     # I as in "settings" muscle memory (Super+I elsewhere); T for Tools.
     { mods = "$mod CTRL";   key = "I";      action = "exec, nomarchy-menu system";    desc = "System menu"; }
     { mods = "$mod CTRL";   key = "T";      action = "exec, nomarchy-menu tools";     desc = "Tools menu"; }
+    # The one SUPER+CTRL row that is not a menu module: lock earns the
+    # family slot because bare SUPER+L is a common app bind and Escape is
+    # unusable (see the power-menu note above). Same dispatcher the power
+    # menu's Lock row uses (rofi.nix) — logind, not `hyprlock` directly, so
+    # the session is marked locked and hypridle's lock_cmd stays the one
+    # place that decides how a lock actually looks.
+    { mods = "$mod CTRL";   key = "L";      action = "exec, loginctl lock-session";   desc = "Lock screen"; }
     { mods = "$mod SHIFT";  key = "C";      action = "exec, hyprpicker -a";           desc = "Color picker (→ clipboard)"; }
 
     # Focus — SUPER + arrow keys.