Raymond Li

Interesting. I can probably enable some kind of overloading to display the image before blurring it. Or I think a better option would be to blur with a tiny radius...

@SafwanLjd Why does picom blur faster than i3lock-color?

> arguably better Some people might want a fixed blurred screenshot, so it's not necessarily better, it's more a different option.

> I would've contributed myself if I knew a little bit more C... Maybe someday Always an option to learn on the job (aka while contributing code to fix this)...

> Having just started using i3lock-color today and having the same confusion as to why it was so slow a generating a blurred screenshot, I noticed the that compile logs...

Where are you setting CFLAGS? I'm on a 3840x2160 screen and I have this: ``` $ time i3lock -B20 --no-verify # Default real 0m7.889s user 0m7.761s sys 0m0.067s $ time...

I have a similar setup for CFLAGS (Arch makepkg config) and I'm still getting the same thing. Not sure what the difference is.

> Do you use clang? With GCC if multiple -On options are defined then it uses the last one but it's not clear what Clang does - maybe uses the...

Done in 37eecf22.

What keycodes are the controller buttons sending? i3lock(-color) wasn't exactly designed to handle controllers...