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

Last updated: December 25,2024

1. Install "swaylock-blur-git" 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-git on Arch using YAY

$ yay -S swaylock-blur-git

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

$ yay -Rns swaylock-blur-git

2. Manually Install "swaylock-blur-git" 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-git's git locally

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

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

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

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

ID: 594189
Name: swaylock-blur-git
PackageBaseID: 138341
PackageBase: swaylock-blur-git
Version: r9.62baed6-1
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: 4
Popularity: 2.0E-6
OutOfDate:
Maintainer: cjbassi
FirstSubmitted: 1545867956
LastModified: 1552435321
URLPath: /cgit/aur.git/snapshot/swaylock-blur-git.tar.gz