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Fast and sweet-looking lock screen for Linux systems with effects. Most i3lock wrapper scripts out there take an image, add some effect(s) then lock with the modified image as a locker background. Overall experience doesn't feel natural given the delay of 2-3 seconds. So Betterlockscreen was my attempt to solve this problem, as we don't need to change the lockscreen background frequently this script caches images with effect so the overall experience is simple and as fast as native i3lock. The script takes a directory or image, adds various effects and caches the images in a special directory. Those cached images will be used as locker background depending on the configuration provided by the user.
Features
- Betterlockscreen is available via package manager on some linux-distributions, if you miss your favorite one you can follow along with our installation-script or manual-installation
- If you are using Arch Linux, you can install the AUR package betterlockscreen to get the latest version, or betterlockscreen-git for the most up-to-date (unstable) changes
- If you are using Gentoo Linux, you can install betterlockscreen from Gentoo's GURU overlay using emerge x11-misc/betterlockscreen
- If you are using NixOS, betterlockscreen is available in both the stable and unstable channels and can be installed using nix-env -iA nixos.betterlockscreen
- Documentation available
- If you are using Void Linux, you can install betterlockscreen using xbps-install -S betterlockscreen
- You can customize Betterlockscreen for your needs
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