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<h1>i3lock</h1>

<p>
  i3lock is a simple screen locker like slock. After starting it, you will see
  a white screen (you can configure the color/an image). You can return to your
  screen by entering your password.
</p>

<h2>Improvements</h2>

<ul>
  <li>
    i3lock forks, so you can combine it with an alias to suspend to RAM (run
    "i3lock &amp;&amp; echo mem &gt; /sys/power/state" to get a locked screen
    after waking up your computer from suspend to RAM)
  </li>
  <li>
    You can specify either a background color or a PNG image which will be
    displayed while your screen is locked.
  </li>
  <li>
    You can specify whether i3lock should bell upon a wrong password.
  </li>
  <li>
    i3lock uses PAM and therefore is compatible with LDAP etc.
  </li>
</ul>

<h2>Install</h2>

<p>
  Many distributions include i3lock as a (potentially optional) dependency
  of the i3 package (see <a href="/downloads/">Downloads</a>). You can also
  look for the specific package in your distribution, e.g. on Debian and
  Debian-based distributions:
</p>

<pre>
sudo apt-get install i3lock
</pre>

<h2>Releases</h2>

<ul>
  <li>
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.11.1.tar.bz2">i3lock-2.11.1.tar.bz2</a> (2018-10-18,
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.11.1.tar.bz2.asc">GPG signature</a>)
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.11.tar.bz2">i3lock-2.11.tar.bz2</a> (2018-10-10,
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.11.tar.bz2.asc">GPG signature</a>)
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.10.tar.bz2">i3lock-2.10.tar.bz2</a> (2017-11-25,
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.10.tar.bz2.asc">GPG signature</a>)
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.9.1.tar.bz2">i3lock-2.9.1.tar.bz2</a> (2017-06-21,
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.9.1.tar.bz2.asc">GPG signature</a>)
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.9.tar.bz2">i3lock-2.9.tar.bz2</a> (2017-05-26,
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.9.tar.bz2.asc">GPG signature</a>)
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.8.tar.bz2">i3lock-2.8.tar.bz2</a> (2016-06-04,
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.8.tar.bz2.asc">GPG signature</a>)
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.7.tar.bz2">i3lock-2.7.tar.bz2</a> (2015-05-20,
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.7.tar.bz2.asc">GPG signature</a>)
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.6.tar.bz2">i3lock-2.6.tar.bz2</a> (2014-07-18,
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.6.tar.bz2.asc">GPG signature</a>)
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.5.tar.bz2">i3lock-2.5.tar.bz2</a> (2013-06-09,
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.5.tar.bz2.asc">GPG signature</a>)
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.4.1.tar.bz2">i3lock-2.4.1.tar.bz2</a> (2012-06-02,
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.4.1.tar.bz2.asc">GPG signature</a>)
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.4.tar.bz2">i3lock-2.4.tar.bz2</a> (2012-04-01,
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.4.tar.bz2.asc">GPG signature</a>)
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.3.1.tar.bz2">i3lock-2.3.1.tar.bz2</a> (2012-03-15,
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.3.1.tar.bz2.asc">GPG signature</a>)
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.3.tar.bz2">i3lock-2.3.tar.bz2</a> (2012-03-15,
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.3.tar.bz2.asc">GPG signature</a>)
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.2.tar.bz2">i3lock-2.2.tar.bz2</a> (2011-11-06,
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.2.tar.bz2.asc">GPG signature</a>)
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.1.tar.gz">i3lock-2.1.tar.gz</a> (2011-03-13,
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.1.tar.gz.asc">GPG signature</a>)
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.0.tar.gz">i3lock-2.0.tar.gz</a> (2010-09-05,
    <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-2.0.tar.gz.asc">GPG signature</a>)
  </li>
  <li><a href="/i3lock/i3lock-1.0.tar.gz">i3lock-1.0.tar.gz</a> (2009-05-10,
  <a href="/i3lock/i3lock-1.0.tar.gz.asc">GPG signature</a>)</li>
  <li><a href="/i3lock/i3lock-0.9.tar.gz">i3lock-0.9.tar.gz</a></li>
</ul>

<h2>Development</h2>

<p>
  i3lock is currently developed at <a href="https://github.com/i3/i3lock" title="GitHub">
  https://github.com/i3/i3lock</a>. Checkouts of the master branch are intended to
  be stable and working all the time. Integration of new features happens in a separate branch.
</p>

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