i3lock improves slock by making it fork() and therefore combinable with commands to suspend your computer. Additionally, instead of turning off your screen via DPMS and/or displaying a black screen, i3lock displays a white screen so you can see if your computer failed to resume from suspend or if your screen is just locked. Also, when entering a wrong password, i3lock does not call XBell(). This is important because i3lock/slock think you’ve entered a password when resuming from suspend, at least sometimes.
i3lock is currently developed at http://code.stapelberg.de/git/i3lock. Checkouts of the master branch are intended to be stable and working all the time. Integration of new features happens in a separate branch.
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