lxqt VS paper

You are probably using Openbox as a window manager which does not provide this feature.. Replace Openbox with Xfwm4 (window manager of Xfce) or Kwin (window manager of KDE Plasma). See: https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/wiki/ConfigWindowManagers

I don't know your issue as I can't quite picture what you're describing sorry, but it does remind me of some issues with openbox (eg. https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/issues/1704). Swapping out openbox as the WM will resolve the issue.

Yes, but also it relays on KDE, at least a little bit.

I found this LXQt wiki page, ConfigScreensavers, so I tried the provided suggestions:

Configuring lock_command should work. See more on https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/wiki/ConfigScreensavers.

Here's all you need to know and do to build from source: https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/wiki/Building-from-source

LXQt: I think they are working on it but not sure how far along they have gotten https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/issues/10

Anyway, I'm just curious how other Arch/Surface users are faring. What have you tried that works, and what doesn't? I've seen mention that there are DEs, like paperde, which is designed for touch screen access, and I'm curious if they offer a better experience. Lastly, please feel free to share any tips/recommendations.

Link: https://gitlab.com/cubocore/paper/paperde

PaperDE It's a small project I've been interested in for a very long time. I don't know how usable it is yet, but I'd really like to try it out. But there is like zero documentation on this thing. There's the official installation guide, but well it's really not an installation guide at all. I did all these things and the best result I managed to get was manually initiating a wayfire session(?) that sort of uses PaperDE except it's completely broken. I'm assuming I'm doing something wrong, but well with no real documentation it's impossibly difficult to find out what. Anyone here managed to figure this out? Cause I'm completely lost.