rlock

Clone of slock, a simple X display locker (by suckless), written in rust.

Features

• Keyboard-only lock command line option: Locks keyboard while still displaying monitor

• Custom password: Unlike slock, which uses the user's system password to exit the lock, rlock allows to set a custom password stored locally, with command line option to modify.

Usage

Dowload rust

For unix, simply run

curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh

to get the latest version of rust

Clone repository

git clone https://github.com/SilverSoldier/rlock.git

Compile and build binary using cargo

cargo build
cargo run

Usage

Add /target/debug/rlock to ~/bin, if ~/bin is in your PATH

Use -h or --help for the command line arguments