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
SEE ALSO¶
slim(1)