pavletto / slock-blur

Super fast and highly stable blur version of the simplest screen locker slock

slock-blur - simple screen locker

Super fast and highly stable blur version of the simple screen locker utility for X. It takes a screenshot of your desktop and blurs it and remain there until you enter your password.

Requirements

In order to build slock you need the Xlib header files.

DO NOT PANIC!

• This blur effect does not crash
• This blur effect does not need OpenGL
• This blur effect only relies on Xlib and your CPU for rendering
• This blur effect is multi-threaded (It takes less that 30ms for bluring whole desktop of a 10inch Intel Atom Laptop)

Installation

Edit config.mk to match your local setup (slock is installed into the /usr/local namespace by default).

Afterwards enter the following command to build and install slock (if necessary as root):

make clean install

Running slock

Simply invoke the 'slock' command. To get out of it, enter your password. .

THE STACK-BLUR PART OF THE CODE IS BASED ON GREATE WORK BY:

Mario Klingemann [e-mail]

Link to the original work:

• http://incubator.quasimondo.com/processing/fast_blur_deluxe.php

The original source code of stack-blur:

• http://incubator.quasimondo.com/processing/stackblur.pde