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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 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. Note that i3lock is not an image manipulation software. If you need to resize the image to fill the screen, you can use something like…
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 a PNG image which will be
displayed while your screen is locked. Note that i3lock is not an image
manipulation software. If you need to resize the image to fill the screen
or similar, use existing tooling to do this before passing it to i3lock.
You can specify whether i3lock should bell upon a wrong password.
I might be wrong but it seems to be option for
The world's most popular non-default computer lockscreen.
i3lock-color
The world's most popular non-default computer lockscreen.
A modern version of i3lock with color functionality and other features.
NEW: Official Discord server at discord.gg/FzVPghyDt2
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:
not that's a problem, but it's not available on "regular" i3lock
improved screen locker
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:
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 a PNG image which will be displayed while your screen is locked. Note that i3lock is not an image manipulation software. If you need to resize the image to fill the screen or similar, use existing tooling to do this before passing it to i3lock.
You can specify whether i3lock should bell upon a wrong password.
i3lock uses PAM…