betterlockscreen VS i3lock-color

I use betterlockscreen :)

My only problem right now is that I absolutely hate how i3lock looks. I tried follow the installation steps of betterlockscreen to try to have it replaced. I have so far managed to setup a keybind that locks my machine using betterlockscreen.

service?https://github.com/betterlockscreen/betterlockscreen

I'm looking for a lock screen for my laptop. Previously I used betterlockscreen on Arch with systemd, but I really don't understand how to make it work with runit.

looks like betterlockscreen but i don't know whether it has sway compatibility

For my use I didn't really encounter that many issues. I used OpenRC, and had some issues with betterlockscreen, but I think I solved it fairly fast with xss-lock. Since I also a MX Master 3 I had some issues with having the logiops daemon start a startup, but also this wasn't much of an issue because of the Gentoo forums.

You should be able to disable screen locking in the DE's settings. Someone mentioned it in this GitHub issue

I'm using xidlehook suggested script that you can find here with betterlockscreen instead of i3lock

While I was using awesome I used a slightly modified systemd file from betterlockscreen which looks like this:

I'm looking to have asciiquarium running on all my monitors when I lock the screen (preferably spanning the monitors, not multiple instances). I've managed to do this with i3lock-color having a transparent background and the following script found here:

You mean i3lock-color? Until now, I didn't know it had blurring. For me, the regular i3lock has always been sufficient. However, the option you say does seem to be pretty well established.

i3lock-color (which betterlockscreen uses) has recenlty received changes to some options (see here), the betterlockscreen-git package already has a fix so you can use that

the pull request is #84