diff --git a/home-manager/flake.lock b/home-manager/flake.lock
index f1aa960..c56ad73 100644
--- a/home-manager/flake.lock
+++ b/home-manager/flake.lock
@@ -54,11 +54,11 @@
         ]
       },
       "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1738753876,
-        "narHash": "sha256-yXT82kERWL4R81hfun9BuT478Q6ut0dJzdQjAxjRS38=",
+        "lastModified": 1738789832,
+        "narHash": "sha256-HdlMPfObPu5y7oDfH/w3vvlU3UTQ/bQjSULChZARm5M=",
         "owner": "nix-community",
         "repo": "home-manager",
-        "rev": "f20b7a8ab527a2482f13754dc00b2deaddc34599",
+        "rev": "30ea6fed4e4b41693cebc2263373dd810de4de49",
         "type": "github"
       },
       "original": {
diff --git a/home-manager/progs/eww/config/statusbar.yuck b/home-manager/progs/eww/config/statusbar.yuck
index dbb73d5..435a8a4 100644
--- a/home-manager/progs/eww/config/statusbar.yuck
+++ b/home-manager/progs/eww/config/statusbar.yuck
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 
 (defwidget window-title []
   (label
-  :text "${windowtitle == "" ? "" : "[[${windowtitle}]]"}"))
+  :text "${windowtitle == "" ? "" : "(${windowtitle})"}"))
 
 (defpoll windowtitle :interval "1s" `scripts/currentWindow.fish`)
 (defpoll currentworkspace :interval "1s" `scripts/currentWorkspace.fish`)
diff --git a/home-manager/progs/swaylock.nix b/home-manager/progs/swaylock.nix
index 15177c8..c3fe2c8 100644
--- a/home-manager/progs/swaylock.nix
+++ b/home-manager/progs/swaylock.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 { pkgs, ... }:
+let
+  blur = pkgs.callPackage ../util/blur.nix;
+in
 {
   programs.swaylock = {
     enable = true;
@@ -32,6 +35,8 @@
       text-caps-lock-color = "f5a97f";
       text-ver-color = "8aadf4";
       text-wrong-color = "ee99a0";
+      # image = builtins.toString ../wallpaper_blurred.png;
+      image = "${(blur { src = ../wallpaper.png; })}/output.png";
     };
   };
 }
diff --git a/home-manager/util/blur.nix b/home-manager/util/blur.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..67248af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/home-manager/util/blur.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{
+  stdenv,
+  imagemagick,
+  src,
+}:
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  pname = "blur-image";
+  version = "1.0";
+
+  inherit src;
+
+  buildInputs = [ imagemagick ];
+
+  # input is a file, not a directory, skip unpackPhase
+  unpackPhase = "true";
+
+  # command taken from: https://old.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/oz3t7v/setting_a_blurred_background_with_swaylock_and/
+  buildPhase = ''
+    magick ${src} -filter Gaussian -resize 20% -blur 0x2.5 -resize 500% output.png
+  '';
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p $out
+    mv output.png $out/
+  '';
+}