When using Awesome Window Manager, how do you set a hotkey to lock your system?
I'd preferably like to use Win+L so that I can lock my screen when needed.
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Sign up to join this communityFrom Arch Linux How to lock screen with awesome window manager [SOLVED]:
I will also recommend
xscreensaver
, simply because it has ways of letting you know when the screen is locked (it comes with a ton of screensavers to chose from). To lock usingxscrensaver
, do this:
- Install xscreensaver (Ed:
sudo apt install xscreensaver
)- Add
xscreensaver -no-splash &
to your$HOME/.xinitrc
(Ed: This file doesn't exist in Ubuntu Unity 16.04. In Startup Applications you add the commandxscreensaver -nosplash
)- Make a keybinding in Awesome that spawns
xscreensaver-command -lock
. This will start the screensaver and ask for a password.Suckless'
slock
is rather small, but all it does is blank the screen and wait for input. Input is not even echoed, you don't see anything, so you might as well have a locked box and not know it.
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