How To Install i3lock on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install i3lock on Fedora 34.
What is i3lock
i3lock is a simple screen locker like slock. After starting it, you will see a white screen (you can configure the color/an image). You can return to your screen by entering your password. Many little improvements have been made to i3lock over time - i3lock forks, so you can combine it with an alias to suspend to RAM (run “i3lock && echo mem > /sys/power/state” to get a locked screen after waking up your computer from suspend to RAM) - You can specify either a background color or a PNG image which will be displayed while your screen is locked. - You can specify whether i3lock should bell upon a wrong password. - i3lock uses PAM and therefore is compatible with LDAP etc. On OpenBSD i3lock uses the bsd_auth(3) framework.
We can use yum or dnf to install i3lock on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install i3lock.
Install i3lock on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install i3lock using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install i3lock
Install i3lock on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install i3lock using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install i3lock
How To Uninstall i3lock on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the i3lock package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove i3lock
i3lock Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/pam.d/i3lock
/usr/bin/i3lock
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/40
/usr/lib/.build-id/40/a876c3658a7379e21822b153acbc925a43876b
/usr/share/doc/i3lock
/usr/share/doc/i3lock/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/i3lock/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/i3lock
/usr/share/licenses/i3lock/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/i3lock.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install i3lock on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.