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            1 slock
            2 =====
            3 Simple X display locker. This is the simplest X screen locker we are aware of.
            4 It is stable and quite a lot of people in our community are using it every day
            5 when they are out with friends or fetching some food from the local pub.
            6 
            7 Configuration
            8 -------------
            9 slock is configured via `config.h` like most other suckless.org software. Per
           10 default it will turn the screen red on any keyboard press, if you are less
           11 paranoid and turning red on failed login attempts suffices for you, set
           12 `failonclear = 0` in `config.h`.
           13 
           14 Development
           15 -----------
           16 You can [browse](//git.suckless.org/slock) its source code repository or get a
           17 copy using the following command:
           18 
           19         git clone https://git.suckless.org/slock
           20 
           21 Download
           22 --------
           23 * [slock-1.6](//dl.suckless.org/tools/slock-1.6.tar.gz) (2025-08-09)
           24 
           25 Xautolock
           26 ---------
           27 slock can be started after a specific period of user inactivity using
           28 [xautolock](http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/X11/screensavers/). The command
           29 syntax is:
           30 
           31         xautolock -time 10 -locker slock
           32 
           33 Simpler alternatives to xautolock might be
           34 [xssstate](//git.suckless.org/xssstate/) or
           35 [xss](http://woozle.org/~neale/src/xss.html).
           36