slimlock(1)

💅 slimlock(1) — General Commands Manual

okay bestie, sit down, we need to talk about slimlock 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

slimlock — Unholy Screen Locker 🔒💀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

slimlock [-v]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

It's giving Frankenstein's monster of screen lockers. The way that grafting SLiM and slock together leads to blood, tears, and locked screens 😭🩸 no cap, that's literally the whole deal. Iconic, honestly.

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -v — display version information ✨ (just the version, bestie, that's it)

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🎀 CONFIGURATION 🎀

Slimlock reads the same configuration files you use for SLiM. It looks in CFGDIR/slim.conf and CFGDIR/slimlock.conf, where CFGDIR is defined when built — usually /etc. 📂

The options that are read from slim.conf are:

• hidecursor
• current_theme
• background_color and background_style
• screenshot_cmd
• welcome_msg

See the SLiM docs for more information 🫶

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🧚 slimlock.conf settings 🧚

slimlock.conf contains the following settings:

• dpms_standby_timeout — number of seconds of inactivity before the screen blanks. Default: 60 💤
• dpms_off_timeout — number of seconds of inactivity before the screen is turned off. Default: 600 🌙
• wrong_passwd_timeout — delay in seconds after an incorrect password is entered. Default: 2 ⏳
• passwd_feedback_msg — message to display after a failed authentication attempt. Default: Authentication failed 😬
• passwd_feedback_capslock — message to display after a failed authentication attempt if the CapsLock is on. Default: Authentication failed (CapsLock is on) 🔠
• show_username — 1 to show username on themes with single input field; 0 to disable. Default: 1 🪪
• show_welcome_msg — 1 to show SLiM's welcome message; 0 to disable. Default: 0 👋
• tty_lock — 1 to disallow virtual terminals switching; 0 to allow. Default: 1 🖥️
• bell — 1 to enable the bell on authentication failure; 0 to disable. Default: 1 🔔

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💀 BUGS 💀

Where the theme defines a welcome message or password prompt, slimlock displays them in the wrong place. 🙈 not the placement, bestie, it's lowkey embarrassing

Using the same theme as slim assumes the theme is appropriate. Most of the themes out there (including our defaults) put the word "Login" on the panel, which isn't quite right for a screen lock. 😭 like girl, we're locking, not logging in

To alleviate both of these, you can specify a different theme in CFGDIR/slimlock.conf, which will override the setting in CFGDIR/slim.conf, but you still need to find (or create) a suitable lock theme. 🎨✨

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• slim(1)

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and that's the whole vibe, bestie 🫶 go lock that screen, you main character 👑

signed off with version 0.9, dated January 12, 2023 — mwah 💅✨