betterlockscreen
🍀 sweet looking lockscreen for linux system (by betterlockscreen)
i3lock-fancy
i3lock script that takes a screenshot of the desktop, blurs the background and adds a lock icon and text (by meskarune)
| betterlockscreen | i3lock-fancy | |
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| 12 | 4 | |
| 2,410 | 1,500 | |
| 0.4% | - | |
| 3.9 | 0.0 | |
| 4 months ago | 8 months ago | |
| Shell | Shell | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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betterlockscreen
Posts with mentions or reviews of betterlockscreen.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-25.
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Locking screen on i3
I use betterlockscreen :)
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How to replace i3wm lockscreen?
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.
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Why this service is failed?
service?https://github.com/betterlockscreen/betterlockscreen
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Cannot make lock screen work in Runit
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.
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How to get swaylock effects to look like this
looks like betterlockscreen but i don't know whether it has sway compatibility
- i3lock alternatives
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Its not about systemd bad becaus unix philosophy!111!!! its about I wanna choose my init system independent from distro of my choise.
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.
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Just wondering what setting a lockscreen service would impact my other DE experience
You should be able to disable screen locking in the DE's settings. Someone mentioned it in this GitHub issue
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i3 to launch script on login
I'm using xidlehook suggested script that you can find here with betterlockscreen instead of i3lock
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Systemd service for swaylock
While I was using awesome I used a slightly modified systemd file from betterlockscreen which looks like this:
i3lock-fancy
Posts with mentions or reviews of i3lock-fancy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-27.
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I3 Lock Blur
See also https://github.com/meskarune/i3lock-fancy
- i3lock alternatives
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Wake From Lock Screen HDMI Issue
So what I did was sudo apt remove light-locker and then in Synaptic package manager install i3lock and i3lock-fancy.
- slock error
What are some alternatives?
When comparing betterlockscreen and i3lock-fancy you can also consider the following projects:
multilockscreen - :lock: i3lock wrapper with multi-monitor support
betterlockscreen - 🍀 sweet looking lockscreen for linux system [Moved to: https://github.com/betterlockscreen/betterlockscreen]
sway-launcher-desktop - TUI Application launcher with Desktop Entry support. Made for SwayWM, but runs anywhere
Direwolf-Arch-Rice - 🐺🍚 A guide to replicating my riced Arch Linux set-up.
xidlehook - GitLab: https://gitlab.com/jD91mZM2/xidlehook
i3-autodisplay - i3wm multiple monitors auto configuration
i3lock-color - The world's most popular non-default computer lockscreen.
i3-battery-popup - A script that shows warning messages to the user when the battery is almost empty. For i3wm users.
CiLocks - Crack Interface lockscreen, Metasploit and More Android/IOS Hacking
dotfiles - My dotfiles
betterlockscreen vs multilockscreen
i3lock-fancy vs betterlockscreen
betterlockscreen vs sway-launcher-desktop
i3lock-fancy vs Direwolf-Arch-Rice
betterlockscreen vs xidlehook
i3lock-fancy vs i3-autodisplay
betterlockscreen vs i3lock-color
i3lock-fancy vs i3-battery-popup
betterlockscreen vs CiLocks
i3lock-fancy vs multilockscreen
betterlockscreen vs Direwolf-Arch-Rice
i3lock-fancy vs dotfiles