conky-manager2 VS betterlockscreen

AFAIK, conky manager is unmaintained, although there is a fork you can try to build yourself.

The fork of conky manager which is conky-manager2 is maintained and works with the newer conky syntax based on Lua. https://github.com/zcot/conky-manager2 Do a web search and you can find a PPA that has it.

try gotham clock desklet from conky-manager2, it looks cool

So what I did to get it working is installed conky from the repo/discovery store. I then manually installed conky-manager2 which you can get here: https://github.com/zcot/conky-manager2

you might want to try this updated fork instead: https://github.com/zcot/conky-manager2

I'm using conky with conky maganger 2. Here's a link:https://github.com/zcot/conky-manager2

I have kind of the same problems. So, that is why I answer. I came across conky when using MX Linux. they have a wonderfully working Conky manager, which can be downloade here: https://github.com/zcot/conky-manager2

I use betterlockscreen :)

My only problem right now is that I absolutely hate how i3lock looks. I tried follow the installation steps of betterlockscreen to try to have it replaced. I have so far managed to setup a keybind that locks my machine using betterlockscreen.

service?https://github.com/betterlockscreen/betterlockscreen

I'm looking for a lock screen for my laptop. Previously I used betterlockscreen on Arch with systemd, but I really don't understand how to make it work with runit.

looks like betterlockscreen but i don't know whether it has sway compatibility

For my use I didn't really encounter that many issues. I used OpenRC, and had some issues with betterlockscreen, but I think I solved it fairly fast with xss-lock. Since I also a MX Master 3 I had some issues with having the logiops daemon start a startup, but also this wasn't much of an issue because of the Gentoo forums.

You should be able to disable screen locking in the DE's settings. Someone mentioned it in this GitHub issue

I'm using xidlehook suggested script that you can find here with betterlockscreen instead of i3lock

While I was using awesome I used a slightly modified systemd file from betterlockscreen which looks like this: