Michael Abrahamsen

Nov 24, 2018

Using systemd 

[Unit]
Description=Starts i3lock at suspend time
Before=suspend.target

[Service]
User=username
Type=forking
Environment=DISPLAY=:0
ExecStartPre=
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/lock_and_blur.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=suspend.target

You may want your computer to lock on sleep (for example if you are using hybrid-sleep ) In that case modify the above script to look like this: See Creating a custom lockscreen with i3lock to setup the lockscreen script

Add a service file to run the script when the computer sleeps or suspends

Create a file /etc/systemd/system/screenlock@.service with the following contents. (Change the username to be your local user account name)

[Unit]
Description=Starts i3lock on sleep
Before=sleep.target

[Service]
User=username
Type=forking
Environment=DISPLAY=:0
ExecStartPre=
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/lock_and_blur.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=sleep.target

Enable the service by running:
sudo systemctl enable screenlock@username.service again replacing username with the linux account username

posted at 13:24  ·   ·  linux  arch  i3lock  i3  systemd

May 09, 2017

Creating a custom lockscreen with i3lock

Instead of the default i3 lockscreen (which is just a plain white screen), you can show an image as the background. You can create a script to show a blurred image of the content on your screen to get the following effect.

Screenlock

Create the script

The short script below will take a screenshot of your screen, blur it, and add the lock icon:

Create the file at /usr/local/bin/lock_and_blur.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# set the icon and a temporary location for the screenshot to be stored
icon="$HOME/images/lock-icon-light.png"
tmpbg='/tmp/screen.png'

# take a screenshot
scrot "$tmpbg"

# blur the screenshot by resizing and scaling back up
convert "$tmpbg" -filter Gaussian -thumbnail 20% -sample 500% "$tmpbg"

# overlay the icon onto the screenshot
convert "$tmpbg" "$icon" -gravity center -composite "$tmpbg"

# lock the screen with the blurred screenshot
i3lock -i "$tmpbg"

Lock screen after a specific amount of time

You can use the package xautolock to lock the screen after a specific amount of time. To configure, add the following to your i3 config file. This will lock the screen after 5 minutes and give you a warning 30 seconds before the screen locks. You will need notify-osd installed to show the notification.

exec xautolock -detectsleep -time 5 -locker "/usr/local/bin/lock_and_blur.sh" \
  -notify 30 \
  -notifier "notify-send -u critical -t 10000 -- 'locking screen in 30 seconds'"

Further customization

To go a little bit further you can use a package called i3lock-color to customize the color of the feedback ring. The next step is to detect if the background is dark or light and change the lock icon and colors based on that. The final script will look like this:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

lighticon="$HOME/images/lock-icon-light.png"
darkicon="$HOME/images/lock-icon-dark.png"
tmpbg='/tmp/screen.png'

# take a screenshot
scrot "$tmpbg"

# set a threshold value to determine if we should use the light icon or dark
# icon
VALUE="60" #brightness value to compare to

# determine the color of the screenshot
# thanks to [i3lock-fancy](https://github.com/meskarune/i3lock-fancy) for the
# idea of getting the background color to change the icons
COLOR=$(convert "$tmpbg" -gravity center -crop 100x100+0+0 +repage -colorspace hsb \
    -resize 1x1 txt:- | awk -F '[%$]' 'NR==2{gsub(",",""); printf "%.0f\n", $(NF-1)}');

# change the color ring colors to leave the middle of the feedback ring
# transparent and the outside to use either dark or light colors based on the 
# screenshot
if [ "$COLOR" -gt "$VALUE" ]; then #light background, use dark icon
    icon="$darkicon"
    PARAM=(--textcolor=00000000 --insidecolor=00000000 --ringcolor=0000003e \
        --linecolor=00000000 --keyhlcolor=ffffff80 --ringvercolor=ffffff00 \
        --separatorcolor=22222260 --insidevercolor=ffffff1c \
        --ringwrongcolor=ffffff55 --insidewrongcolor=ffffff1c)
else # dark background so use the light icon
    icon="$lighticon"
    PARAM=(--textcolor=ffffff00 --insidecolor=ffffff00 --ringcolor=ffffff3e \
        --linecolor=ffffff00 --keyhlcolor=00000080 --ringvercolor=00000000 \
        --separatorcolor=22222260 --insidevercolor=0000001c \
        --ringwrongcolor=00000055 --insidewrongcolor=0000001c)
fi

# blur the screenshot by resizing and scaling back up
convert "$tmpbg" -filter Gaussian -thumbnail 20% -sample 500% "$tmpbg"

# overlay the icon onto the screenshot
convert "$tmpbg" "$icon" -gravity center -composite "$tmpbg"

# lock the screen with the color parameters
i3lock "${PARAM[@]}" -i "$tmpbg"
posted at 11:04  ·   ·  linux  arch  i3lock  i3