10 i3lock is a simple screen locker like slock. After starting it, you will see
11 a white screen (you can configure the color/an image). You can return to your
12 screen by entering your password.
19 i3lock forks, so you can combine it with an alias to suspend to RAM (run
20 "i3lock && echo mem > /sys/power/state" to get a locked screen
21 after waking up your computer from suspend to RAM)
24 You can specify either a background color or a PNG image which will be
25 displayed while your screen is locked.
28 You can specify whether i3lock should bell upon a wrong password.
31 i3lock uses PAM and therefore is compatible with LDAP etc.
38 Many distributions include i3lock as a (potentially optional) dependency
39 of the i3 package (see <a href="/downloads/">Downloads</a>). You can also
40 look for the specific package in your distribution, e.g. on Debian and
41 Debian-based distributions:
45 sudo apt-get install i3lock
52 <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.11.1.tar.bz2">i3lock-2.11.1.tar.bz2</a> (2018-10-18,
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60 <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.10.tar.bz2">i3lock-2.10.tar.bz2</a> (2017-11-25,
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64 <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.9.1.tar.bz2">i3lock-2.9.1.tar.bz2</a> (2017-06-21,
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68 <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.9.tar.bz2">i3lock-2.9.tar.bz2</a> (2017-05-26,
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72 <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.8.tar.bz2">i3lock-2.8.tar.bz2</a> (2016-06-04,
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76 <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.7.tar.bz2">i3lock-2.7.tar.bz2</a> (2015-05-20,
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80 <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.6.tar.bz2">i3lock-2.6.tar.bz2</a> (2014-07-18,
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84 <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.5.tar.bz2">i3lock-2.5.tar.bz2</a> (2013-06-09,
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88 <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.4.1.tar.bz2">i3lock-2.4.1.tar.bz2</a> (2012-06-02,
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92 <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.4.tar.bz2">i3lock-2.4.tar.bz2</a> (2012-04-01,
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96 <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.3.1.tar.bz2">i3lock-2.3.1.tar.bz2</a> (2012-03-15,
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100 <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.3.tar.bz2">i3lock-2.3.tar.bz2</a> (2012-03-15,
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104 <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.2.tar.bz2">i3lock-2.2.tar.bz2</a> (2011-11-06,
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108 <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.1.tar.gz">i3lock-2.1.tar.gz</a> (2011-03-13,
109 <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.1.tar.gz.asc">GPG signature</a>)
112 <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.0.tar.gz">i3lock-2.0.tar.gz</a> (2010-09-05,
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115 <li><a href="/i3lock/i3lock-1.0.tar.gz">i3lock-1.0.tar.gz</a> (2009-05-10,
116 <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-1.0.tar.gz.asc">GPG signature</a>)</li>
117 <li><a href="/i3lock/i3lock-0.9.tar.gz">i3lock-0.9.tar.gz</a></li>
123 i3lock is currently developed at <a href="https://github.com/i3/i3lock" title="GitHub">
124 https://github.com/i3/i3lock</a>. Checkouts of the master branch are intended to
125 be stable and working all the time. Integration of new features happens in a separate branch.