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cjbassi / swaylock-blur

A small Rust program that runs swaylock and sets the image to a blurred screenshot of the desktop

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using ffmpeg instead of imagemagick

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commented

Hi,

I am experimenting with a similar script as well, and found that for me doing a Gaussian blur on the screenshot with ffmpeg instead of imagemagick is significantly faster.

My not-so-sophisticated script that highlights my point:
grim -t jpeg /tmp/screenshot.jpg && ffmpeg -loglevel panic -y -i /tmp/screenshot.jpg -vf "gblur=sigma=50" /tmp/blur.jpg && swaylock -i /tmp/blur.jpg

Maybe it's worth considering using this.

commented

Thanks! I noticed it was a lot faster for me too so I just switched over. I also added a --blur-sigma flag to control the blur since that was easy to add with ffmpeg now.