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Message

Description

This patch lets you add a message to your lock screen. You can place a default message in config.h, and you can also pass a message with -m message

So, for instance, you can run

slock -m "Locked at  $(date "+%a %d, %H:%M:%S")"

Or if you want a silly lockscreen

slock -m "$(cowsay "$(fortune)")"

Notes

This adds three items to config.h:

• message - the default message
• text_color - which can be a hex color or a colorname (like "black")
• font_name - which must be some valid X11 font name like "6x10". This variable was (somewhat wrongly) named "text_size" in the previous version.

A list of font names can be generated with slock -f

Download

• slock-message-20191002-b46028b.diff --- bug-fixes

Previous Version

• slock-message-20180626-35633d4.diff

Authors

• Blair Drummond - blair.robert.drummond@gmail.com