slock

My build of suckless' slock, the simple screen locker utility for X.

Changes

• ability to set a background image (in early development)
• dynamic display state detection via DPMS. This enables waking the display with the keyboard input being treated as password input
• Improved dpms patch that allows specific system setting overrides { standby, suspend, off }

Using slock

Simply invoke the slock command. To get out of it, enter your password.

I use it with xss-lock:

# ~/.initrc:
xss-lock -n /usr/lib/xsecurelock/dimmer -l -- /usr/local/bin/slock &

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TODO

• Image effects
• Proper image scaling for multihead
• Per monitor configuration
• Disable input (keep screen) option
• CapsLock indicator
• No text on waking from suspend

/* TODO: CapsLock indicator */
if(!XkbGetIndicatorState(dpy, XkbUseCoreKbd, &indicators))
        caps = indicators & 1;