If you do any mouse or keyboard activity It will prompt you for password. Now press “F12” key in you keyboard, xscreensaver application should lock your screen. Mohamed 3857 3796 0 18:19 pts/4 00:00:00 grep -color=auto xscreensaverįrom the above we can see the xscreensaver is running as intended. Open a command and use the below command to make suer the xscreensaver application is started by awesome.

I our case it should start the screen saver and lock the screen.Īt the end of rc.lua file add the following lines to start the xscreensaver application, here -no-splash switch says not to show splash screen when starting xscreensaver.Ī_with_shell('xscreensaver -no-splash') In the above code “F12” is our short cut key, and “xscreensaver-command -lock” is the command to be executed when the key is pressed. The steps for other tools should be almost same with very few small modification.Īdd the following lines In your rc.lua file under “Standard program” section.Īwful.key(, 'F12', function () ('xscreensaver-command -lock') end), In this article I will demonstrate how to use xscreensaver with awesome to lock your screen. It can be achieved with any one of the following standalone apps and small modification to rc.lua. Awesomewm is very stable, fast and with a small codebase and footprint. Screensaver in awesome window manager ?īy default awesome window manager doesn’t provide any inbuilt support for locking the screen or screen saver. Screen lock in awesome window manager ?Ģ. This post gives you answer for 2 questions.ġ.

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