This is a shell script wrapper for i3lock-fancy-rapid inspired by betterlockscreen.

It takes a screenshot, blurs it and use it as your lockscreen. All this is done in a very short period of time.

Here are two examples:

• rapid
• good-looking
• configurable

Install the aur package betterlockscreen_rapid-git.

Thanks for jian-lin's contribution.

Install the GURU package x11-misc/betterlockscreen_rapid. Please refer to this for more information.

If you want to package it for other distributions, please let me known and I'll put the package information here.

1. Install all the dependencies.
2. Copy betterlockscreen_rapid to /usr/bin/ or somewhere else in you $PATH.
3. Copy betterlockscreen_rapid.conf to /etc/.

Make directory $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/betterlockscreen_rapid/ and write your own configuration file betterlockscreen_rapid.conf there.

You can use betterlockscreen_rapid.conf as a reference. More information can be found at betterlockscreen.

Note that $XDG_CONFIG_HOME defaults to $HOME/.config/.

betterlockscreen_rapid radius [times | pixel]

• radius is the kernel size of the box filter.
• times is the number of times we filter the image.
• pixel for pixelization

More information can be found at i3lock-fancy-rapid.

betterlockscreen defaults to nofork mode.

nofork mode may be benefical to you, e.g. you can pause you notificition before locking your screen and resume it after unlocking your screen like this:

dunstctl set-paused true
betterlockscreen_rapid 31 3
dunstctl set-paused false

If you do not want nofork mode, you can set nofork='false' in the configuration to disable it.

• i3lock-color >= 2.13.c.3
• i3lock-fancy-rapid

MIT