BlurLocker

An i3lock-color Wrapper Script That Reads Colors Directly From Xresources!

Why

Because i3lock-color looks ugly out of the box, and there are like a billion options you need to set if you actually want it to look decent

Gallery

Installation

Manual Installation

• install i3lock-color (obviously), and xgetres (both available in the AUR)
• clone this repository:

git clone https://gitlab.com/SafwanLjd/BlurLocker.git

• copy the executable file to whereever you keep your executables (/usr/local/bin, ~/.local/bin, etc.)

AUR

This script is available in the Arch User Repository, so if you're using an Arch based distro you can install it with your favorite AUR helper (paru, yay, etc.)

paru -S blurlocker

Usage

You can just run blurlocker, and it will just work!

However, there's an option you might want to use, the -n option:

blurlocker -n

This will allow you to blur the locker window using a compositor that supports blur like picom-ibhagwan, this can be useful as it gets rid of the slight delay between running the script and locking the screen.

picom-ibhagwan Example Configuration File

blur-method             = "kawase";
blur-kern               = "3x3box";
blur-strength           = 5;

# this line disables blur on all other programs that aren't the lock screen
blur-background-exclude = [ "class_g != 'i3lock'" ];

You can add or change options as you see fit