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data-angel

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Registered: 2021-03-08

Posts: 8

xss-lock, i3lock, kde,

i'm trying to set up i3lock to replace kscreenlocker but i'm not sure where to look and don't really understand the session lock arch wiki page enough.

i3lock works on sleep and timer, but i don't really understand what i did. I dont think i did anything for it to work on sleep and i don't know why xset does what it did. is there a config file somewhere?

how do i change the defaults for i3locker too? i can choose a colour if i trigger it from terminal but i'm not sure what to do to keep it.

lastly, when i input

$ xss-lock i3lock

it returns

Failed to set screensaver attributes; is another one running?

is this because kscreenlocker is still running in the bg? how might i check for it and disable it?

manyroads

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From: MAGA's dystopian paradise

Registered: 2019-12-09

Posts: 24

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Re: xss-lock, i3lock, kde,

Time to research such things then...

To kill a running app in terminal enter:

pkill <application>

I'm not certain I understand why you want to change to i3lock if you are running kde.  Are you running kde?

Here's what I use for i3wm & dwm.  I place the command in .xprofile in order for it to be shared across window managers...

xautolock -time 8 -locker i3lock-fancy &

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Pax vobiscum,
Mark Rabideau - http://many-roads.com
spectrwm, i3, bspwm, dwm  ~ Reg. Linux User #449130
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." H. L. Mencken