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i3lock - slightly improved screen locker based on slock
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i3lock improves slock by making it fork() and therefore combinable with
commands to suspend your computer. Additionally, instead of turning off
your screen via DPMS and/or displaying a black screen, i3lock displays a
white screen so you can see if your computer failed to resume from suspend
or if your screen is just locked. Also, when entering a wrong password,
i3lock does not call XBell(). This is important because i3lock/slock think
you’ve entered a password when resuming from suspend, at least sometimes.
i3lock - improved screen locker
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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 passwords.
i3lock was forked from slock-0.9
Requirements
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In order to build i3lock you need the Xlib header files and the PAM development
headers (libpam-dev or similar).
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)
Installation
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Edit config.mk to match your local setup (slock is installed into
the /usr/local namespace by default).
- You can either a background color or a PNG image which will be displayed
while your screen is locked.
Afterwards enter the following command to build and install slock
(if necessary as root):
- You can specify whether i3lock should bell upon a wrong password.
make clean install
- i3lock uses PAM and therefore is compatible with LDAP etc.
Requirements
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- libxcb
- libxcb-util
- libpam-dev
- libcairo-dev
Running i3lock
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