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Awesome WM - How do you set a hotkey to lock your system?
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From 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’
slockis 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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