I'm submitting a…

[ ] Bug
[x] Feature Request
[ ] Other (Please describe in detail)

Current Behavior

It seems like neither i3 nor i3lock emit a lock event.

Expected Behavior

It would be great if i3lock / i3 could emit a lock event on screen lock that would allow other applications to capture and act upon it.

Environment

Output of i3lock --version:

i3lock: version 2.11.1 © 2010 Michael Stapelberg

$ uname -a
Linux arch-usb 5.2.0-arch2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jul 8 18:18:54 UTC 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Related

This originally came from keepassxreboot/keepassxc#3339 - a password manager could lock it's database on screenlock, but that currently doesn't seem possible with i3 / i3lock, since there's no lock event (correct me if I'm wrong).

I'm sure there'd be more use cases:)