I want i3lock to show my current desktop wallpaper, without the need to set path manually every time I change the wallpaper. I know that I can use the -i /path/to/image option, but I don't know where X is storing the current wallpaper, if that even exists?
Wallpapers in X11 work by changing the root window contents. There is no (standard) way to recover the path where that image came from. Neither is there a way to tell i3lock to copy the root window contents. So, this is not possible.
The following tutorial for getting urxvt transparent says "[...] copies the wallpaper to the background of the terminal. (more exactly, the contents of Xorg's root window)": http://ctkarch.org/documentation/tutorials/tuto.php?page=urxvt-transpa.xml So it sounds like it's not that impossible.
This is what I did. As stated above using a screenshot will work. However, I did not want any activity on the scrot. I just took a scrot of a good lock back ground image as my wallpaper, with no active apps, and saved it in the .i3 directory. So when I call i3 lock
i3lock -i ~/.i3/lock_screen.png
I get a nice clean lock screen
It depend's on your distribution, try to "locate wallpaper". Please note in Fedora the i3lock is not compiled with "-i" support, therefore you can't even load an image there.
you could use a screenshot, inside a wrapper around i3lock - something like this:
#!/bin/bash
scrot /tmp/screen_locked.png
i3lock -i /tmp/screen_locked2.pngsave the file as an executable somewhere in your path, and that should do it.
Asked: Jul 17 '12
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