How to disable the auto lock screen in Manjaro i3wm

When I watch the video on Manjaro i3wm, auto lock screen is a bit annoying, Is there any way to disable auto lock screen and only keep mannual lock screen?

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Oke seems your talking about logscreen and not blanking.

Comment out the following line in your i3 config:

exec --no-startup-id xautolock -time 15 -corners 0-0- -cornersize 1000 -locker blurlock

Mine loooks a little different but it’s the line with xautolock.
After saving reload your i3 config with mod+shift+r for the changes to take effect.

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Hello,

After saving, it’s necessary to logout and login i3, or do “killall xautolock”. If you don’t reboot xautolock stay in memory, so it’s remain active.

In the new i3/config, the line to comment is:
exec --no-startup-id xss-lock --transfer-sleep-lock – i3lock --nofork

Fred

As far as I know reloading your i3config should do the trick. The default button combo to reload the config is mod+shift+r

Or just install caffeine, assuming you have your sys tray active.

Hello,

Yes it’s true mod+shift+r reload i3 config file but don’t kill the software currently loaded. Il you havec(par exemple) nm-applet in your systray it’s remain in the systray. For xautolock it’s same think…

Fred

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Ah I see. Maybe mod+shift+c is the better option?

# reload the configuration file
bindsym $mod+Shift+c reload

# restart i3 inplace (preserves your layout/session, can be used to upgrade i3)
bindsym $mod+Shift+r restart

If not then yeah logging out and back in or rebooting.

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I have solved it,
Thank you for your help

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