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11 .TH i3lock 1 "JANUARY 2012" Linux "User Manuals"
14 i3lock \- improved screen locker
36 is a simple screen locker like slock. After starting it, you will see a white
37 screen (you can configure the color/an image). You can return to your screen by
38 entering your password.
43 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)
45 You can specify either a background color or a PNG image which will be displayed while your screen is locked.
47 You can specify whether i3lock should bell upon a wrong password.
49 i3lock uses PAM and therefore is compatible with LDAP, etc.
55 Display the version of your
60 Don't fork after starting.
64 Enable beeping. Be sure to not do this when you are about to annoy other people,
65 like when opening your laptop in a boring lecture.
69 Enable turning off your screen using DPMS. Note that, when you do not specify this
70 option, DPMS will turn off your screen after 15 minutes of inactivity anyways (if
71 you did not disable this in your X server).
74 .B \-I, \-\-inactivity-timeout
75 Specifies the number of seconds i3lock will wait for another password before
76 turning off the monitors, in case you entered a wrong password or canceled by
77 pressing Escape. Only makes sense together with \-d. If omitted, the default is
81 .B \-u, \-\-no-unlock-indicator
82 Disable the unlock indicator. i3lock will by default show an unlock indicator
83 after pressing keys. This will give feedback for every keypress and it will
84 show you the current PAM state (whether your password is currently being
85 verified or whether it is wrong).
88 .BI \-i\ path \fR,\ \fB\-\-image= path
89 Display the given PNG image instead of a blank screen.
92 .BI \-c\ rrggbb \fR,\ \fB\-\-color= rrggbb
93 Turn the screen into the given color instead of white. Color must be given in 3-byte
94 format: rrggbb (i.e. ff0000 is red).
98 If an image is specified (via \-i) it will display the image tiled all over the screen
99 (if it is a multi-monitor setup, the image is visible on all screens).
102 .BI \-p\ win|default \fR,\ \fB\-\-pointer= win|default
103 If you specify "default",
105 does not hide your mouse pointer. If you specify "win",
107 displays a hardcoded Windows-Pointer (thus enabling you to mess with your
108 friends by using a screenshot of a Windows desktop as a locking-screen).
111 .B \-e, \-\-ignore-empty-password
112 When an empty password is provided by the user, do not validate
113 it. Without this option, the empty password will be provided to PAM
114 and, if invalid, the user will have to wait a few seconds before
115 another try. This can be useful if the XF86ScreenSaver key is used to
116 put a laptop to sleep and bounce on resume or if you happen to wake up
117 your computer with the enter key.
120 .B \-f, \-\-show-failed-attempts
121 Show the number of failed attempts, if any.
125 Enables debug logging.
129 \- use i3lock as your screen saver
132 Michael Stapelberg <michael+i3lock at stapelberg dot de>
134 Jan-Erik Rediger <badboy at archlinux.us>