i3lock

i3lock is a simple screen locker like slock. After starting it, you will see a white screen (you can configure the color/an image). You can return to your screen by entering your password.

Improvements

• i3lock forks, so you can combine it with an alias to suspend to RAM (run "i3lock && echo mem > /sys/power/state" to get a locked screen after waking up your computer from suspend to RAM)
• You can specify either a background color or a PNG image which will be displayed while your screen is locked.
• You can specify whether i3lock should bell upon a wrong password.
• i3lock uses PAM and therefore is compatible with LDAP etc.

Install

Many distributions include i3lock as a (potentially optional) dependency of the i3 package (see Downloads). You can also look for the specific package in your distribution, e.g. on Debian and Debian-based distributions:

sudo apt-get install i3lock

Releases

• i3lock-2.15.tar.xz (2024-03-16, GPG signature)
• i3lock-2.14.1.tar.xz (2022-06-21, GPG signature)
• i3lock-2.14.tar.xz (2022-05-28, GPG signature)
• i3lock-2.13.tar.bz2 (2020-10-27, GPG signature)
• i3lock-2.12.tar.bz2 (2019-07-21, GPG signature)
• i3lock-2.11.1.tar.bz2 (2018-10-18, GPG signature)
• i3lock-2.11.tar.bz2 (2018-10-10, GPG signature)
• i3lock-2.10.tar.bz2 (2017-11-25, GPG signature)
• i3lock-2.9.1.tar.bz2 (2017-06-21, GPG signature)
• i3lock-2.9.tar.bz2 (2017-05-26, GPG signature)
• i3lock-2.8.tar.bz2 (2016-06-04, GPG signature)
• i3lock-2.7.tar.bz2 (2015-05-20, GPG signature)
• i3lock-2.6.tar.bz2 (2014-07-18, GPG signature)
• i3lock-2.5.tar.bz2 (2013-06-09, GPG signature)
• i3lock-2.4.1.tar.bz2 (2012-06-02, GPG signature)
• i3lock-2.4.tar.bz2 (2012-04-01, GPG signature)
• i3lock-2.3.1.tar.bz2 (2012-03-15, GPG signature)
• i3lock-2.3.tar.bz2 (2012-03-15, GPG signature)
• i3lock-2.2.tar.bz2 (2011-11-06, GPG signature)
• i3lock-2.1.tar.gz (2011-03-13, GPG signature)
• i3lock-2.0.tar.gz (2010-09-05, GPG signature)
• i3lock-1.0.tar.gz (2009-05-10, GPG signature)
• i3lock-0.9.tar.gz

Development

i3lock is currently developed at https://github.com/i3/i3lock. Checkouts of the master branch are intended to be stable and working all the time. Integration of new features happens in a separate branch.