slock-blur - simple screen locker

Super fast and highly stable blur version of the simple screen locker utility for X. It takes a screenshot of your desktop and blurs it and remain there until you enter your password.

Debian Patches

Applied Debian Sid patches to support PAM instead of using Shadow. More information at: https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/suckless-tools All patches applied:

• slock-Fix-resize-with-multiple-monitors-and-portrait-mode.patch
• Use-PAM-for-authentication.patch
• slock-there-can-only-be-one-window-in-the-event.patch
• Don-t-exit-if-failed-to-adjust-OOM-score.patch
• Remove-custom-library-search-paths-from-Makefiles.patch
• slock-Properly-clear-the-last-entered-character.patch
• slock-Do-not-drop-privileges.patch Also added man file from debian package.

Requirements

In order to build slock you need the Xlib header files.

DO NOT PANIC!

• This blur effect does not crash
• This blur effect does not need OpenGL
• This blur effect only relies on Xlib and your CPU for rendering
• This blur effect is multi-threaded (It takes less that 30ms for bluring whole desktop of a 10inch Intel Atom Laptop)

Installation

Edit config.mk to match your local setup (slock is installed into the /usr/local namespace by default).

Afterwards enter the following command to build and install slock (if necessary as root):

make clean install

Running slock

Simply invoke the 'slock' command. To get out of it, enter your password. .

THE STACK-BLUR PART OF THE CODE IS BASED ON GREATE WORK BY:

Mario Klingemann [email protected]

Link to the original work:

• http://incubator.quasimondo.com/processing/fast_blur_deluxe.php

The original source code of stack-blur:

• http://incubator.quasimondo.com/processing/stackblur.pde