slimlock - Unholy Screen Locker
The Frankenstein's monster of screen lockers. Grafting SLiM and
slock together leads to blood, tears, and locked screens.
- -v
- display version information
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