josefilipeferreira/slock

🔒 simple screen locker with pixelized background

🔒 slock

Simple screen locker utility for X with pixelized screenshot as background (Fork of the suckless slock).

Now with 🚀blazing fast🚀 pixelization!

	time (ms)	speedup
original	23.6	-
improved memory access	6.8	3.47

HPC is my hammer and now everything looks like a nail - me

Requirements

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

Installation

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

make clean install

Running

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