4 • Display an error when backspace is pressed without any input
5 • Print an error when a non-PNG file is opened
6 (i3lock only supports PNG files) (Thanks eplanet)
7 • Don’t unnecessarily check the xcb_connect return value,
8 it is known never to be NULL (Thanks SegFault42)
9 • Fix memory leak when grabbing fails (Thanks karulont)
10 • Respect Xft.dpi for determining the unlock indicator’s scale factor
11 • Discard pending password verification attempts
12 when a new password is entered (Thanks layus)
14 2017-11-25 i3lock 2.10
16 • Only use -lpam when not on OpenBSD (Thanks Kaashif)
17 • locale: treat empty string same as unset (Thanks Ran)
18 • Fix overwrite of getopt optind (Thanks jakob)
19 • Immediately hide the unlock indicator after ESC / C-u (Thanks Orestis)
20 • Measure wall-clock time instead of CPU time for “locking” indicator.
21 • SetInputFocus to the i3lock window to force-close context menus
22 • Use RandR for learning about attached monitors
24 2017-06-21 i3lock 2.9.1
26 • Fix version number mechanism (for --version)
27 • Revert the fix for composited notifications, as it causes more issues than
29 https://github.com/i3/i3lock/issues/130
30 https://github.com/i3/i3lock/issues/128
34 • i3lock.1: use signal names without SIG prefix
35 • Removed obsolete inactivity timeout
36 • Added version files for release tarball.
38 • Automatically unlock (without having to press <Enter>) one attempt which was
39 entered while authenticating
40 • Stop leaking the image_path dup
41 • Displaying locking message when grabbing the pointer/keyboard
42 • Display error message when locking failed
44 • Change input slices to be exactly pi/3 in size instead of slightly more
45 • Fix covering of composited notifications using the XComposite extension
46 • Remove last traces of DPMS
47 • Use bsd_auth(3) instead of PAM on OpenBSD
48 • Restore intended behaviour and don't use mlock(2) on OpenBSD.
52 • Remove DPMS support in favor of a wrapper script and xset(1).
53 • Indicate that the --inactivity-timeout option takes an argument. (Thanks
55 • fix pam_securetty: set PAM_TTY to getenv("DISPLAY")
56 • Eat XKB_KEY_Delete and XKB_KEY_KP_Delete (Thanks bebehei)
57 • Show unlock indicator if password was entered during PAM verification
58 • Allow CTRL+J as enter and CTRL+H as backspace (Thanks Karl Tarbe)
59 • Flush xcb connection after opening fullscreen window (Thanks martin)
60 • Add support for `xss-lock --transfer-sleep-lock'
64 • Die when the X11 connection breaks during runtime (Thanks Eduan)
65 • Implement logging the number of failed attempts (Thanks koebi)
66 • Ignore password validation is pam is in wrong state (Thanks Neodyblue)
67 • Get current user with getpwuid() instead of using $ENV{USER} (Thanks Martin)
68 • Add support for Compose and dead-keys with libxkbcommon.
69 Requires libxkbcommon ≥ 0.5.0 (Thanks Daniel)
70 • Format the source using clang-format.
71 • Refresh pam credentials on successful authentication (for Kerberos and the
73 • List pressed modifiers on failed authentication (Thanks Deiz, Alexandre)
74 • Only redraw the screen if the unlock indicator is actually used
76 • Make pkg-config configurable for cross-compilation (Thanks Nikolay)
80 • NEW DEPENDENCY: use libxkbcommon-x11 instead of libX11
81 This helps us get rid of all code that directly uses libX11
82 • Use cairo_status_to_string for descriptive errors.
83 • Add `-e` option to not validate empty password.
84 • Bugfix: update the initial keyboard modifier state (Thanks lee, Ran)
85 • Re-raise i3lock when obscured in a separate process
86 • Turn on the screen on successful authentication
87 • Delay to turn off the screen after wrong passwd
88 • Discard half-entered passwd after some inactivity
89 • Ignore empty passwd after repeated Enter keypress
90 • Scale the unlock indicator (for retina displays)
94 • NEW DEPENDENCY: Use libxkbcommon for input handling
95 This makes input handling much better for many edge cases.
96 • Bugfix: fix argument parsing on ARM (s/char/int/)
97 • Bugfix: free(reply) to avoid memory leak
98 • Bugfix: Use ev_loop_fork after fork, fixes forking on kqueue based OSes
99 • Bugfix: Fix centering the indicator in the no-xinerama case
100 • Only use mlock() on Linux, FreeBSD (for example) requires root
101 • promote the "could not load image" message from debug to normal
102 • s/pam_message/pam_response/ (Thanks Tucos)
103 • remove support for NOLIBCAIRO, cairo-xcb is widespread by now
104 • Allow XKB_KEY_XF86ScreenSaver as synonym for enter
105 This keysym is generated on convertible tablets by pressing a hardware
107 • Allow passwordless PAM conversations (e.g. fingerprint)
108 • Add ctrl+u password reset
109 • Set window name to i3lock
111 2012-06-02 i3lock 2.4.1
113 • Bugfix: Correctly center unlock indicator after reconfiguring screens
115 • Bugfix: Revert shift lock handling (broke uppercase letters)
116 • Bugfix: Skip shift when getting the modifier mask (Thanks SardemFF7)
118 2012-04-01 i3lock 2.4
120 • Bugfix: Fix background color when using cairo (Thanks Pascal)
121 • Only output text when in debug mode (fixes problems with xautolock)
122 • fallback when the image cannot be loaded
123 • Use (void) instead of () for functions without args (Thanks fernandotcl)
125 2012-03-15 i3lock 2.3.1
127 • Fix compilation on some systems
129 2012-03-15 i3lock 2.3
131 • Implement a visual unlock indicator
132 • Support ISO_Level5_Shift and Caps Lock
133 • Lock the password buffer in memory, clear it in RAM after verifying
134 • Fork after the window is visible, not before
135 • Bugfix: Copy the color depth from parent (root) window instead of
136 hardcoding a depth of 24
138 2011-11-06 i3lock 2.2
140 • Don’t re-grab pointer/keyboard on MappingNotify. In some rare situations,
141 this lead to some keypresses "slipping through" to the last focused window.
142 • Correctly handle Mode_switch/ISO_Level3_Shift
143 • Render to a pixmap which is used as background for the window instead of
144 copying contents on every expose event
145 • Handle screen resolution changes while screen is locked
146 • Manpage: document arguments for every option
148 2011-05-13 i3lock 2.1
150 • Accept return/backspace when the buffer of 512 bytes is full
151 • Handle numpad keys correctly
152 • Handle MappingNotify events
153 • Correctly check for errors when connecting to X11
154 • Add i3lock.pam to not rely on debian’s /etc/pam.d/other anymore
155 • don’t display debug output
156 • add NOLIBCAIRO flag to permit compilation without cairo
158 2010-09-05 i3lock 2.0
160 • Complete rewrite of i3lock. Now using xcb instead of Xlib.
161 • When a window obscures i3lock, it pushes itself back to the top again.
162 • Display version when starting with -v
164 2009-08-02 i3lock 1.1
166 • Implement background pictures (-i) and colors (-c)
168 2009-05-10 i3lock 1.0
170 • Implement PAM support
171 • Implement options for forking, beeping, DPMS
173 2009-05-01 i3lock 0.9
175 • First release, forked from slock 0.9