X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?p=i3%2Fi3lock;a=blobdiff_plain;f=i3lock.1;h=434638b6aa1ab793f2f33163065eafa3f3fca665;hp=4d208d7f252dc1ca31b1265878b1c07c540e8291;hb=HEAD;hpb=2105ce8cc7abd08f79d701bddd23f9fa4e2ee56d diff --git a/i3lock.1 b/i3lock.1 index 4d208d7..434638b 100644 --- a/i3lock.1 +++ b/i3lock.1 @@ -8,39 +8,141 @@ .fi .. -.TH i3lock 1 "MARCH 2009" Linux "User Manuals" +.TH i3lock 1 "JANUARY 2012" Linux "User Manuals" .SH NAME -i3lock \- slightly improved version of slock +i3lock \- improved screen locker .SH SYNOPSIS -i3lock takes no arguments +.B i3lock +.RB [\|\-v\|] +.RB [\|\-n\|] +.RB [\|\-b\|] +.RB [\|\-i +.IR image.png \|] +.RB [\|\-c +.IR color \|] +.RB [\|\-t\|] +.RB [\|\-p +.IR pointer\|] +.RB [\|\-u\|] +.RB [\|\-e\|] +.RB [\|\-f\|] +.RB [\|\-l\|] .SH DESCRIPTION .B i3lock -locks your screen by making it white. To quit -.B i3lock -just enter your password. +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. + +.SH IMPROVEMENTS -.SH DIFFERENCES TO SLOCK +.IP \[bu] 2 +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) +.IP \[bu] +You can specify either a background color or a PNG image which will be displayed while your screen is locked. +.IP \[bu] +You can specify whether i3lock should bell upon a wrong password. +.IP \[bu] +i3lock uses PAM and therefore is compatible with LDAP, etc. + +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +.B \-v, \-\-version +Display the version of your .B i3lock -improves slock by making it fork() and therefore combinable with -commands to suspend your computer. Additionally, instead of turning of -your screen via DPMS and/or displaying a black screen, + +.TP +.B \-n, \-\-nofork +Don't fork after starting. + +.TP +.B \-b, \-\-beep +Enable beeping. Be sure to not do this when you are about to annoy other people, +like when opening your laptop in a boring lecture. + +.TP +.B \-u, \-\-no-unlock-indicator +Disable the unlock indicator. i3lock will by default show an unlock indicator +after pressing keys. This will give feedback for every keypress and it will +show you the current PAM state (whether your password is currently being +verified or whether it is wrong). + +.TP +.BI \-i\ path \fR,\ \fB\-\-image= path +Display the given PNG image instead of a blank screen. + +.TP +.BI \-c\ rrggbb \fR,\ \fB\-\-color= rrggbb +Turn the screen into the given color instead of white. Color must be given in 3-byte +format: rrggbb (i.e. ff0000 is red). + +.TP +.B \-t, \-\-tiling +If an image is specified (via \-i) it will display the image tiled all over the screen +(if it is a multi-monitor setup, the image is visible on all screens). + +.TP +.BI \-p\ win|default \fR,\ \fB\-\-pointer= win|default +If you specify "default", .B i3lock -displays a white screen so you can see if your computer failed to resume -from suspend or if your screen is just locked. Also, when entering a wrong -password, +does not hide your mouse pointer. If you specify "win", .B i3lock -does not call XBell(). This is important because -.B i3lock/slock -think you've entered a password when resuming from suspend, at least sometimes. +displays a hardcoded Windows-Pointer (thus enabling you to mess with your +friends by using a screenshot of a Windows desktop as a locking-screen). -.B i3lock -was forked from slock-0.9 +.TP +.B \-e, \-\-ignore-empty-password +When an empty password is provided by the user, do not validate +it. Without this option, the empty password will be provided to PAM +and, if invalid, the user will have to wait a few seconds before +another try. This can be useful if the XF86ScreenSaver key is used to +put a laptop to sleep and bounce on resume or if you happen to wake up +your computer with the enter key. + +.TP +.B \-f, \-\-show-failed-attempts +Show the number of failed attempts, if any. + +.TP +.B \-l, \-\-lock-console +Lock the console to disable TTY switching (Linux only). + +.TP +.B \-\-debug +Enables debug logging. +Note, that this will log the password used for authentication to stdout. + +.SH DPMS + +The \-d (\-\-dpms) option was removed from i3lock in version 2.8. There were +plenty of use-cases that were not properly addressed, and plenty of bugs +surrounding that feature. While features are not normally removed from i3 and +its tools, we felt the need to make an exception in this case. + +Users who wish to explicitly enable DPMS only when their screen is locked can +use a wrapper script around i3lock like the following: + +.Vb 6 +\& #!/bin/sh +\& revert() { +\& xset dpms 0 0 0 +\& } +\& trap revert HUP INT TERM +\& xset +dpms dpms 5 5 5 +\& i3lock -n +\& revert +.Ve + +The \-I (-\-inactivity-timeout=seconds) was removed because it only makes sense with DPMS. + +.SH SEE ALSO +.IR xautolock(1) +\- use i3lock as your screen saver .SH AUTHOR Michael Stapelberg -forked from slock-0.9 by Anselm R Garbe +Jan-Erik Rediger