Removing i3 lock sound

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Annoying loud sound

I’m running i3wm installed with the default installer.

Every time I lock the screen with $mod+l there’s this extremely loud bip which is pretty annoying. I tried looking in the config file and I see it that it launch a perl script but I could not find anything about sound.

Anybody have the same problem or it is just me? I’ve no idea where to look to solve this.

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Hi, by default on eos i3 Mod+L executes a custom script located at scripts/blur-lock.

~/.config/i3/config

# lock by blurring the screen:
bindsym $mod+l exec ~/.config/i3/scripts/blur-lock

These are the contents of the script:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

PICTURE=/tmp/i3lock.png
SCREENSHOT="scrot $PICTURE"

BLUR="5x4"

$SCREENSHOT
convert $PICTURE -blur $BLUR $PICTURE
i3lock -i $PICTURE
rm $PICTURE

You can stop the beep sound just by editing the file and adding a -z option after scrot:

SCREENSHOT="scrot -z $PICTURE"

From https://man.archlinux.org/man/community/scrot/scrot.1.en

-z, --silent
    Prevent beeping.
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I have added a pr so that @joekamprad can take a look at it:

Adding the -z option before scrots prevents the beep sound after executing the script on locking the system with Mod+L.

Fixes:

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Thank you very much, it would have taken eternity for me to figure that out!