5.4 KiB
better_lockscreen
A simple lock script for i3lock
Most of i3lock script out there converts your defined image to add blur, glitch or dim effect to image and it feels so slow and btw who needs dynamic lock background, its not like I change lockscreen background every 5 minutes. I wanted something that was fast and still should have all the effects I want for lockscreen background.
This script generates or already caches the variant for your custom images before hand so they can be later used any number of time as lockscreen background, without the need to apply same effect again and again
Screenshots
Screenshots or it didnt happen... :P
Demo
- Demonstration - youtube.com
Getting Started
Clone this repo, push this script somewhere handy or you can even copy this script to /usr/local/bin so that it can be used from your i3config without defining whole path.
Prerequisites
Make sure you have following packages installed.
- i3lock-color - i3lock fork with additional features (use development branch while building from source for arch use i3lock-color-git from AUR)
- imagemagick - to apply effects to images
- feh - used to set custom wallpaper
- xdpyinfo - find your screen resolution (to resize images accordingly)
- xrandr - depends for xdpyinfo
- background.jpg - find your fav background image
Arch users
To install required packages
Install feh and imagemagick
pacman -S imagemagick feh
Install xrandr and xdpyinfo (currently used to find screenresolution) If anyone knows better way so that these dependencies could be minimized, please open issue.
pacman -S xorg-xrandr xorg-xdpyinfo
Install i3lock-color-git from AUR
Pacaur Users
pacaur -S aur/i3lock-color-git
Yaourt users
yaourt -S i3lock-color-git
How to get started
Clone this repo
git clone https://github.com/pavanjadhaw/betterlockscreen
navigate to cloned repository
cd betterlockscreen
If you dont want to clone the repo and save some bandwidth and diskspace you can do the following
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pavanjadhaw/betterlockscreen/master/betterlockscreen
chmod u+x betterlockscreen
Load/Update the image cache
Grab your favourite image for lockscreen background
betterlockscreen -u path/to/image.img
if you want to use random image from specific directory
betterlockscreen -u path/to/imagedir
set random image as desktop background too
betterlockscreen -u path/to/imagedir && betterlockscreen -w
To lockscreen
Original image as background
betterlockscreen -l
Use dimmed image as lockscreen background
betterlockscreen -l dim
Use blurred image as lockscreen background
betterlockscreen -l blur
Use dim + blurred image as lockscreen background
betterlockscreen -l dimblur
To set wallpaper
Original Image
betterlockscreen -w
Use dimmed image as desktop background
betterlockscreen -w dim
Use blurred image as desktop background
betterlockscreen -w blur
Use dim + blurred image as desktop background
betterlockscreen -w dimblur
To set desktop background on startup, add following lines to your .xintrc after pushing script to your path or you can use absolute path to script too
# below line no longer needed as cached images are now permanently stored
# exec betterlockscreen -u ~/.wall.png &
exec betterlockscreen -w
If you are i3wm user, add following line to your i3config (~/.config/i3/config or ~/.i3/config)
custom shortcut to lockscreen
# custom keybinding to lockscreen, use --lock dim or --lock blur below for different backgrounds
bindsym $mod+shift+x exec betterlockscreen --lock
update image cache and set last cached image as desktop background
# Update image cache
# no longer required as cached images are permanently stored
# exec --no-startup-id betterlockscreen -u ~/.wall.png
# Set last used image as desktop background
# comment out below line if you use different desktop background utility
exec --no-startup-id betterlockscreen -w
OR
use following if you would like to be surprised by random wallpaper from directory of your choice on each startup
# where Pictures/Wallpapers is the directory you would want to get random wallpapers from
exec --no-startup-id betterlockscreen -u ~/Pictures/Wallpapers
# add this only if you want to use same random image as desktop background too (you might want to)
# it might not work as it takes few seconds for images to be cached,
# try adding delay of 5 seconds if thats the case
exec --no-startup-id betterlockscreen -w
Feel free to use and distribute
This is my first bash script so if you think this could be improved or if you have any suggestion. Feel free.
- Hat tip to anyone who's code was used
- Thanks to those who contributed to make it better
- Inspiration - r/unixporn
- etc