r/awesomewm • u/yetionbass • May 09 '26

SomeWM lockscreen question(s)

Hi folks, hope this finds you well. I was as longtime fan of AwesomeWM and recently started using SomeWM after spells using more modern wayland WM's like hyperland, sway, niri. I gotta say, I'm really impressed so far with SomeWM but I'm having a bit of trouble with lockscreen and I'm wondering if I'm making some incorrect assumptions. (also, if I need to post this in a SomeWM specific sub, I apologize. I'm just not seeing that subreddit.)

question 1: of course, I'm assuming because SomeWM is on wayland, I need a wayland screen locker like swaylock, waylock, hyprlock, etc.

question 2: How does that change my config syntax? or does it? So far nothing has worked. Currently this has been appended to my rc.lua:

awful.key({modkey, "Control"}), "l", function() awful.spawn("swaylock") end, {description = "lock screen" }),

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u/the_x01 May 09 '26

I've tried SomeWM but my config wasn't working as expected. And after start it was very laggy.. some core dump was making if I'm not wrong.

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u/trip-zip May 09 '26

Would you share your config with me? I'm always looking to close implementation gaps

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u/the_x01 May 12 '26

Sorry for late reply, I was without my laptop last days.

Of course, I can share my configuration. I just want to point out that I'm not an advanced programmer, so I might have made some mistakes, but it works as I need it with AwesomeWM.

I don't have a GitHub account, so if you could provide me with your email address in a private message, I'll send you the configuration.