/betterlockscreen_rapid

A rapid and good-looking screen locker

Primary LanguageShellMIT LicenseMIT

betterlockscreen_rapid

This is a shell script wrapper for i3lock-fancy-rapid inspired by betterlockscreen.

It takes a screenshot, blurs it and use it as your lockscreen. All this is done in a very short period of time.

Here is an example:

screenshot

Feature

  • rapid
  • good-looking
  • configurable

Installation

Package Manager

Arch Linux

Install the aur package betterlockscreen_rapid-git.

Gentoo Linux

Thanks for jian-lin's contribution.

Install the GURU package x11-misc/betterlockscreen_rapid. Please refer to this for more information.

Others

If you want to package it for other distributions, please let me known and I'll put the package information here.

Manual Installation

  1. Install all the dependencies.
  2. Copy betterlockscreen_rapid to /usr/bin/ or somewhere else in you $PATH.
  3. Copy betterlockscreen_rapid.conf to /etc/.

Configuration

Make directory $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/betterlockscreen_rapid/ and write your own configuration file betterlockscreen_rapid.conf there.

You can use betterlockscreen_rapid.conf as a reference. More information can be found at betterlockscreen.

Note that $XDG_CONFIG_HOME defaults to $HOME/.config/.

Usage

betterlockscreen_rapid radius times
  • radius is the kernel size of the box filter.
  • times is the number of times we filter the image.

More information can be found at i3lock-fancy-rapid.

Dependency

LICENSE

MIT