slimlock

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: June 10, 2011
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NAME

slimlock - Unholy Screen Locker

SYNOPSIS

slimlock [-v]

DESCRIPTION

The Frankenstein's monster of screen lockers. Grafting SLiM and slock together leads to blood, tears, and locked screens.

OPTIONS

-v: display version information

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 in the makefile. The options that are read from slim.conf are hidecursor, current_theme, background_color, and background_style, screenshot_cmd, and welcome_msg. See the SLiM docs for more information.

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