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### Demo
## In action
* [Demonstration](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ng5FZwnn6M&feature=youtu.be) - youtube.com
## Features
## Table of Contents
- **[Requirements](#requirements)**
- [Dependencies](#dependencies)
- **[Installation](#installation)**
- [Manual/Git install](#manualgit-install)
- [OS/Distro Packages](#osdistro-packages)
- [Arch Linux](#arch-linux)
- [Debian and derivatives](#debian-and-derivatives)
- **[Usage](#usage)**
- **[Desktop Background](#set-desktop-background-on-startup)**
- **[i3wm keybinding](#i3wm-keybinding-for-lockscreen)**
- **[Lockscreen whenever suspended](#lockscreen-when-suspendedsystemd-service)**
## Requirements
### Dependencies
- [i3lock-color](https://github.com/PandorasFox/i3lock-color)
- i3lock fork with additional features( >= 2.11-c )
- [imagemagick](https://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php)
- To apply effects to images
- [xdpyinfo](https://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.7/doc/man/man1/xdpyinfo.1.xhtml), [xrandr](https://www.x.org/wiki/Projects/XRandR/), [bc](https://www.gnu.org/software/bc/) and [feh](https://feh.finalrewind.org/)
- To find screen resolution, set custom blur level and wallpaper handling.
Note: Make sure all dependencies are satisfied beforehand.
## Installation
### Manual/Git install
```sh
git clone https://github.com/pavanjadhaw/betterlockscreen
cd betterlockscreen
cp betterlockscreen ~/.local/bin
# or wget the script ~12KB
wget -O betterlockscreen https://git.io/fASUJ
chmod u+x betterlockscreen
cp betterlockscreen ~/.local/bin
# Add betterlockscreen to PATH:
# (In your .bashrc, .zshrc etc)
export PATH="${PATH}:${HOME}/.local/bin/"
```
# Lock screen
betterlockscreen -l | --lock [modifier]
# Lock screen with custom text
betterlockscreen -l | --lock [modifier] -t | --text "custom lockscreen text"
E.g: $ betterlockscreen -l dim -t \"Don't touch my machine!\""
# Set wallpaper
betterlockscreen -w | --wall [modifier]
# Suspend system
betterlockscreen -s | --suspend [modifier]
# Update image cache
betterlockscreen -u | --update (path/to/image.png | path/to/directory)
\ [-r | --resolution <resolution>] [-b | --blur <factor>]
### OS/Distro Packages
Modifiers:
dim
blur
dimblur
Example update image cache:
#### Arch Linux
###### Installing dependencies(not required if using betterlockscreen aur package)
`pacman -S imagemagick feh xorg-xrandr xorg-xdpyinfo`
- i3lock-color
- `trizen -S i3lock-color`
#### Aur package
`betterlockscreen` is available in the Arch User repos as `betterlockscreen` and `betterlockscreen-git`.
- betterlockscreen
- `trizen -S betterlockscreen`
- betterlockscreen-git
- `trizen -S betterlockscreen-git`
#### Debian and derivatives
UtkarshVerma was so kind to provide an installation script for debian based systems, ![check it out here](https://github.com/UtkarshVerma/installer-scripts).
## Usage
Run `betterlockscreen` and point it to either a directory (`betterlockscreen -u "path/to/dir"`) or an image (`betterlockscreen -u "/path/to/img.jpg"`) and that's all. `betterlockscreen` will change update its cache with image you provided.
```sh
usage: betterlockscreen [-u "path/to/img.jpg"] [-l "dim, blur or dimblur"]
[-w "dim, blur, or dimblur"] [-t "custom text"] [-s "lockscreen and suspend"]
[-r "resolution"] [-b "factor"]
betterlockscreen - faster and sweet looking lockscreen for linux systems.
required:
-u, --update "path/to/img.jpg" caches all required images
usage:
-l, --lock effect-name
locks with provided effect
-w, --wall effect-name
set desktop background with provided effect
-s, --suspend effect-name
lockscreen and suspend
Available effects:
dim, blur or dimblur
-t, --text "custom text"
set custom lockscreen text
-b, blur 0.0 - 1.0
set blur range
-r, --resolution res
uses a custom resolution
Usage examples:
1. Updating image cache(required)
betterlockscreen -u ~/Pictures/Forests.png # caches given image
betterlockscreen -u ~/Pictures # caches random image from ~/Pictures directory
2. Custom resolution and blur range
betterlockscreen -u path/to/directory -r 1920x1080 -b 0.5
In this case a random image from the directory is chosen
and converted to a 1920x1080 resolution with the blur factor set to 0.5
3. Lockscreen
betterlockscreen -l dim # lockscreen with dim effect
4. Lockscreen with custom text
betterlockscreen -l dim -t "custom lockscreen text"
5. Set desktop background
betterlockscreen -w blur # set desktop background with blur effect
```
## Lockscreen when suspended
## Set desktop background on startup
Add this line to `.xinitrc`.
```sh
# set desktop background with custom effect
betterlockscreen -w dim
# Alternative (set last used background)
source ~/.fehbg
```
#### i3wm
Add this line to `~/.config/i3/config`
```sh
# set desktop background with custom effect
exec --no-startup-id betterlockscreen -w dim
# Alternative (set last used background)
exec --no-startup-id source ~/.fehbg
```
#### i3wm keybinding for lockscreen
Add this line to your `~/.config/i3/config`
```sh
bindsym $mod+shift+x exec betterlockscreen --l dim
```
## Lockscreen when suspended(systemd service)
```sh
# move service file to proper dir (the aur package does this for you)
cp betterlockscreen@.service /etc/systemd/system/
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systemctl disable betterlockscreen@$USER
Note: Now you can call systemctl suspend to suspend your system and betterlockscreen service will be activated
so when your system wakes your screen will be locked.
# Note: Now you can call systemctl suspend to suspend your system
# and betterlockscreen service will be activated
# so when your system wakes your screen will be locked.
```
## Installation via AUR package
### [release](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/betterlockscreen/)
recommended if you want to spend less on bandwidth(less than 10kb)
```
pacaur -S aur/betterlockscreen
```
```
yaourt -S betterlockscreen
```
### [dev](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/betterlockscreen-git/)
latest features but includes git history so 8mb+ of downloading.
```
pacaur -S aur/betterlockscreen-git
```
```
yaourt -S betterlockscreen-git
```
## Manual Installation
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.
```
git clone https://github.com/pavanjadhaw/betterlockscreen
# optionally copy the script to /usr/local/bin so you can execute it everywhere
cp betterlockscreen/betterlockscreen /usr/local/bin/betterlockscreen
```
OR
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
```
### Prerequisites
Make sure you have following packages installed.
* [i3lock-color](https://github.com/PandorasFox/i3lock-color) - i3lock fork with additional features (currently supported versions are 2.11-c and newer)
* [imagemagick](https://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php) - to apply effects to images
* [xdpyinfo](https://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.7/doc/man/man1/xdpyinfo.1.xhtml) - find your screen resolution (to resize images accordingly)
* [xrandr](https://www.x.org/wiki/Projects/XRandR/) - depends for xdpyinfo
* [bc](https://www.gnu.org/software/bc/) - used for setting the blur level
* [feh](https://feh.finalrewind.org/) - used to set custom wallpaper
*Note: systemd is required for the suspend feature.*
### Arch users
To install required packages
Install feh, imagemagick, 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 imagemagick feh xorg-xrandr xorg-xdpyinfo
```
Install i3lock-color from AUR
Pacaur Users
```
pacaur -S aur/i3lock-color
```
Yaourt users
```
yaourt -S i3lock-color
```
---
### Debian based users
UtkarshVerma was so kind to provide an installation script for debian based systems, [check it out here.](https://github.com/UtkarshVerma/installer-scripts/blob/master/betterlockscreen.sh)
---
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
```
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
```
*set last cached image as desktop background*
```
# Set last used image as desktop background
exec --no-startup-id betterlockscreen -w
```
*set the image cache to a random image from a 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
# 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
```
---