i3lock - improved screen locker
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_This is just a re-patched version of i3lock with the commits from [i3lock-color ](https://github.com/eBrnd/i3lock-color ); all the credit for the color functionality goes to [eBrnd ](https://github.com/eBrnd/ ) !_
i3lock is a simple screen locker like slock. After starting it, you will
see a white screen (you can configure the color/an image). You can return
to your screen by entering your password.
Many little improvements have been made to i3lock over time:
- i3lock forks, so you can combine it with an alias to suspend to RAM
(run "i3lock & & echo mem > /sys/power/state" to get a locked screen
after waking up your computer from suspend to RAM)
- You can specify either a background color or an image (JPG or PNG), which will be
displayed while your screen is locked.
- You can specify whether i3lock should bell upon a wrong password.
- i3lock uses PAM and therefore is compatible with LDAP etc.
On OpenBSD i3lock uses the bsd\_auth(3) framework.
## Additional features in this fork
- You can also specify additional options, as detailed in the manpage. This includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- Color options for the following:
- verification ring
- interior ring color
- ring interior line color
- key highlight color
- backspace highlight color
- text colors for most/all strings
- Changing all of the above depending on PAM's authentication status
- Blurring the current screen and using that as the lock background
- Showing a clock in the indicator
- refreshing on a timer, instead of on each keypress
- Positioning the various UI elements
- Changing the ring radius and thickness, as well as text size
- A new bar indicator, which replaces the ring indicator with its own set of options
- An experimental thread for driving the redraw ticks, so that things like the bar/clock still update when PAM is blocking
## Building
Before you build - check and see if there's a packaged version available for your distro (there usually is, either in a community repo/PPA).
If there's no packaged version available - think carefully, since you're using a forked screen locker at your own risk.
If you want to build a non-debug version, you should tag your build before configuring. For example: `git tag -f "git-$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)"` will add a tag with the short commit ID, which will be used for the version info.
i3lock now uses GNU autotools for building; you'll need to do something like `autoreconf -i && ./configure && make` to build.
### Required Packages
- pkg-config
- libxcb
- libxcb-util
- libpam-dev
- libcairo-dev
- libfontconfig-dev
- libxcb-composite0
- libxcb-composite0-dev
- libxcb-xinerama
- libxcb-randr
- libev
- libx11-xcb-dev
- libxkbcommon >= 0.5.0
- libxkbcommon-x11 >= 0.5.0
- libjpeg-turbo >= 1.4.90
##### Aur Package
[Stable ](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/i3lock-color/ )
[Git ](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/i3lock-color-git )
Running i3lock
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Simply invoke the 'i3lock' command. To get out of it, enter your password and
press enter.
A [sample script ](https://github.com/PandorasFox/i3lock-color/blob/master/lock.sh ) is included in this repository. [Here ](https://streamable.com/fpl46 ) is a short clip of that script in action!
On OpenBSD the `i3lock` binary needs to be setgid `auth` to call the
authentication helpers, e.g. `/usr/libexec/auth/login_passwd` .
Upstream
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Please submit pull requests for i3lock things to https://github.com/i3/i3lock and pull requests for features to me here at https://github.com/PandorasFox/i3lock-color.
