swaylock-blur-bin on AUR (Arch User Repository)

Last updated: February 02,2025

1. Install "swaylock-blur-bin" effortlessly via AUR with the help of a helper(YAY)

a. Install YAY (https://github.com/Jguer/yay)

$ sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel && git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git && cd yay && makepkg -si

b. Install swaylock-blur-bin on Arch using YAY

$ yay -S swaylock-blur-bin

* (Optional) Uninstall swaylock-blur-bin on Arch using YAY

$ yay -Rns swaylock-blur-bin

2. Manually Install "swaylock-blur-bin" via AUR

a. Ensure you have the base development tools and git installed with:

$ sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel git

b. Clone swaylock-blur-bin's git locally

$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/swaylock-blur-bin.git ~/swaylock-blur-bin

c. Go to ~/swaylock-blur-bin folder and install it

$ cd ~/swaylock-blur-bin $ makepkg -si

3. Information about the swaylock-blur-bin package on Arch User Repository (AUR)

ID: 619055
Name: swaylock-blur-bin
PackageBaseID: 139881
PackageBase: swaylock-blur-bin
Version: 0.3.1-1
Description: A small Rust program that runs swaylock and sets the image to a blurred screenshot of the desktop
URL: https://github.com/cjbassi/swaylock-blur
NumVotes: 6
Popularity: 0.00356
OutOfDate:
Maintainer: cjbassi
FirstSubmitted: 1550952167
LastModified: 1559783696
URLPath: /cgit/aur.git/snapshot/swaylock-blur-bin.tar.gz