Important!
This article is one of the most-viewed on The Z-Issue, and is sometimes read thousands of times per day. If it has helped you, please consider a small donation to The Parker Fund by using the top widget at the right. Thanks!In a previous post, I discussed the method for changing the background colour for slock 1.1. Now that slock 1.2 is out, and is in the Portage tree in Gentoo, the ‘savedconfig’ USE flag is a little different than it used to be. In 1.1, the ‘savedconfig’ USE flag would essentially copy the config.mk file to /etc/portage/savedconfig/x11-misc/slock-$version. Now, in slock 1.2, there is still a config file in that location, but it is not just a copy of the config.mk file. Rather, one will see the following two-line file:
# cat /etc/portage/savedconfig/x11-misc/slock-1.2
#define COLOR1 "black"
#define COLOR2 "#005577"
As indicated in the file, you can use either a name for a generic colour (like “black”) or the hex representation for the colour of your choice (see The Color Picker for an easy way to find the hex code for your colours).
There are two things to keep in mind when editing this file:
- The initial hash (#) is NOT indicating a comment, and MUST remain. If you remove it, slock 1.2 will fail to compile
- The
COLOR1variable is for the default colour of the background, whilst theCOLOR2variable is for the background colour once one starts typing on a slocked screen
Hope that this information helps for those people using slock (especially within Gentoo Linux).
Cheers,
Zach
