$ time scrot /tmp/lock.bmp && time convert /tmp/lock.bmp -scale 10% -scale 1000% /tmp/lock.png
real 0m0.183s
user 0m0.128s
sys 0m0.024s
real 0m0.357s
user 0m0.328s
sys 0m0.024s
If I ditch the convert to PNG step it's a lot faster:
$ time scrot /tmp/lock.bmp && time convert /tmp/lock.bmp -scale 10% -scale 1000% /tmp/lock.bmp
real 0m0.178s
user 0m0.128s
sys 0m0.020s
real 0m0.163s
user 0m0.124s
sys 0m0.036s
I'm effectively running these commands:
This is somewhat slow, though:
If I ditch the convert to PNG step it's a lot faster:
However,
i3lock
doesn't support BMP.