How To Install i3lock on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install i3lock in Fedora 36. i3lock is Simple X display locker like slock

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install i3lock on Fedora 36.

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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install i3lock.

Install i3lock on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install i3lock using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install i3lock

Install i3lock on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 36

To uninstall only the i3lock package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove i3lock

i3lock Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/pam.d/i3lock
/usr/bin/i3lock
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/59
/usr/lib/.build-id/59/3fc705a765587e87443a257c66a8bdc8e0d767
/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

i3lock website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install i3lock on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).