pxllock 🔒

A simple, fast wrapper script to make X11 lockers look fancy

Inspired by blurlock as seen in Manjaro i3, it aims to root out its maim problem with speed, with the ability to now use maim or ffmpeg instead of/with imagemagick and to pixelate instead of blur.
Also you can use xsecurelock as an alternative to i3lock, and I’m planning to add support for more lockers.

Installation

Just download or fork this repo and copy the pxllock script to a location like /usr/local/bin or ~/.local/bin (must be in youth $PATH to work from anywhere in the system) and install the needed Dependencies.

To automatically launch it you can use tools like xss-lock or xautolock, please look up their man pages for further info.

Usage

pxllock <imagemagick|maim|ffmpeg> <i3lock|xsecurelock> [locker arguments]

Dependencies

• screenshot & pixelation:
  • imagemagick (slow) or
  • maim + imagemagick (faster) or
  • ffmpeg (fastest)
• lockers:
  • i3lock or
  • xsecurelock + xloadimage

To-do:

• more lockers
• more options for manipulating the screenshots
• AUR package