betterlockscreen Command Examples

Simple, minimal lock screen. More information: https://github.com/betterlockscreen/betterlockscreen.

• Lock the screen:

betterlockscreen {{[-l|--lock]}}

• Change the lock screen background:

betterlockscreen {{[-u|--update]}} {{path/to/image.png}}

• Lock the screen, showing some custom text:

betterlockscreen {{[-l|--lock]}} pixel --text "{{custom lock screen text}}"

• Lock the screen, with a custom monitor off timeout in seconds:

betterlockscreen --off {{5}} {{[-l|--lock]}}