bslock - simple screen locker

A better simple screen locker utility for X (Fork of slock)

How is it different from slock

• A clean keypress feedback
• Xresources patch
• Caps lock patch
• Display text patch
• Background image support (work in progress)

Installation

From AUR

Arch users can install bslock from AUR.

yay -S bslock
# OR
yaourt bslock

Install it directly

You can clone this repository and install it by running make install. You may have to use sudo. In order to build bslock you need the Xlib header files. Edit config.mk to match your local setup if needed (bslock is installed into the /usr/local namespace by default).

Running bslock

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