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i3lock - improved screen locker
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:
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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)
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You can specify either a background color or a PNG image which will be displayed while your screen is locked.
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You can specify whether i3lock should bell upon a wrong password.
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i3lock uses PAM and therefore is compatible with LDAP etc.
Requirements
- pkg-config
- libxcb
- libxcb-util
- libpam-dev
- libcairo-dev
- libxcb-composite0
- libxcb-xinerama
- libev
- libx11-dev
- libx11-xcb-dev
- libxkbcommon >= 0.5.0
- libxkbcommon-x11 >= 0.5.0
Running i3lock
Simply invoke the 'i3lock' command. To get out of it, enter your password and press enter.
Upstream
Please submit pull requests to https://github.com/i3/i3lock