i3lock - improved screen locker
This is just a re-patched version of i3lock with the commits from i3lock-color; all the credit for the color functionality goes to 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:
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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 an image (JPG or PNG), 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. 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.
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
Running i3lock
Simply invoke the 'i3lock' command. To get out of it, enter your password and press enter.
A sample script is included in this repository. Here 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
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.