Karl Tarbe

I believe that this thing might happen when used together with some other app, which tries to write to the X11 overlay window. When somebody else has this problem, then...

Are you running a composer? What windowmanager are you using? What Desktop environment?

i3blocks probably just updates the screen, which causes a redraw. You can put something other to the background, for example leave a video playing. That should rule out i3blocks. I...

I did a little work on it, will continue tomorrow. I try to use screensaver window instead of composite overlay window. Currently the problem is, that compton is a composite...

I have to admit, that I have been a little lazy. I started working on it, then got into some schoolwork and forgot about it. Unfortunately I am too busy...

Use a wrapper script that first kills your composer, runs i3lock-blur, then starts your composer. This is probably the easiest solution.

The whole idea of i3lock-blur is to update the blurred image when the background changes. If you want to blur only once, then you can use [this](https://gist.github.com/csivanich/10914698) -- it was...

You raised a valid argument against the script. Therefore I thought I would give it a try. Check out blur-once branch and let me know if it works for you.

I forgot to add that, when trying out blur-once branch, you should use the options: i3lock -fo.

This is hard to get right for all users. Current defaults are dependent on the screen resolution. And as far as I have tested them, they make my terminals unreadable...