[Feature Request]: hyprlock layout preview

[dieBakterie]

Feature Request

Description

Hyprlock Layout previewer for an preview of your layout only used for testing/creating an own hyprlock layout/style with no need to enter your password every single time.

Use Case

Would be nice to edit and then shortly preview the layout and unlock without the need to enter your long safe Password.

Proposed Solution

Use an high grace so the user can just unlock without the need to enter his password every single time.

Alternatives

We use an timer in the script and when it ends we send an unlock cmd via script.

Additional Information

This would be nice if you do a lot of minor changes one after another and ain't wanna type in your Password every time just to see how it looks. Would add a nice workflow for users and make it easier to do their own layouts and testing them too

[kRHYME7]

Yeah doable as I'm doing this.

xdg_cache/test.conf

source = $HOME/.config/hypr/hyprlock.conf


general {
..add  grace stuff here...
}

[dieBakterie]

So like an template and maybe an additional script for checking if the layout works with the parser... and all too?

[kRHYME7]

wdym with parser?

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The workflow I can think of is.

1. Create or copy a config

touch ~/.config/hypr/hyprlock/myLayout.conf

2. hyprlock.sh --test '~/.config/hypr/hyprlock/myLayout.conf'

Basically run

hyprlock --config hyde_runtime_dir/hyprlock-test.conf

where xdg_cache/hyprlock-test.conf is an autogenerated copy of hyprlock.conf but it is not in the .config, also with added grace period.

[dieBakterie]

wdym with parser?

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The workflow I can think of is.

1. Create or copy a config

touch ~/.config/hypr/hyprlock/myLayout.conf

2. hyprlock.sh --test '~/.config/hypr/hyprlock/myLayout.conf'

Basically run

hyprlock --config hyde_runtime_dir/hyprlock-test.conf

where xdg_cache/hyprlock-test.conf is an autogenerated copy of hyprlock.conf but it is not in the .config, also with added grace period.

Exactly this, since we've an script for parsing our configs but this way it will use the config generator and therefore throw it through the parser i mentioned earlier.

[rubiin]

btw can we also add few more styles as well. I found these a while back https://github.com/mahaveergurjar/Hyprlock-Dots

[dieBakterie]

@kRHYME7 what's the status for this? Do we implement it? Wanna close issues that aren't needed anymore.

[kRHYME7]

chill, I'm currently adding python libs on my local. Will push a MR later or tomorrow.