i3lock: how to disable redraw?
asked 2015-04-20 20:01:42 +0000
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I'm running i3lock with disabled unlock indicator and have conky drawing some things on the window. However, the screen gets redrawn (at least) after every keypress, which makes conky dis- and re-appear, that's looking ugly.
Is there a technical need for this and can we get an option to disable this behaviour? Thanks
Are you using a compositor?
not currently, no.
I would suggest maybe writing a small wrapper for the screen lock which disables conky upon lock and enables it on login again
Thanks, but you are misunderstanding me, I guess. I am drawing onto the lockscreen to show same status information(battery, ...) - see here: http://redd.it/328e18 (where you already answered, given the same username). Conky shows up, as intended, but vanishes for every key of my password.
Drawing on top of i3lock is definitely not supported behavior. I think the fact that this works at all might be a bug in i3lock.