how many people do you know who use 100% stock sway? certainly some people _do_. if you just want the DE to be a minimal part of how you interact with the devic

how many people do you know who use 100% stock sway? certainly some people _do_. if you just want the DE to be a minimal part of how you interact with the device. then there are those who install aftermarket app launchers, swap in a different bar with media widgets, configure a dynamic background like conky, use a customized screen locker, etc. sxmo is meant to be hacked like that. unfortunately though, as your experience shows, sxmo _has_ to be hacked like that to be usable. there isn't really so much of the "i'll just use 100% stock sxmo" the way there is sway. ditch sxmobar. use waybar, or whatever you're comfortable using on desktop sway. hopefully the clock formatting is easier to tweak there. change the input shortcuts (drop a custom sxmo_hook_inputhandler.sh in ~/.config/sxmo/hooks or wherever). for power, i like "click power once to put phone in the unlock state; click power twice to put it in the screenoff state." doesn't matter which state you're coming from: single tap power, single tap it 3s later, you'll always end up in the screenoff state. making the shortcuts idempotent like that solves like 2/3rds of the race conditions i think you're seeing. after twisting and pulling at it for a week to get it to actually be a DE i'm legitimately happy with, i feel sxmo has but three components which are game changing, and worth preserving: 1: bonsai, the daemon which maps button presses to actions. 2: lisgd, the gesture system (if you use it). 3: sxmo_appmenu.sh, i.e. its menuing system. the first one is actually its own, separate package: take a stock sway installation, install `bonsai`, configure the mappings, and you've got what you're familiar with from sxmo but without any of the other baggage. same with the second one. the third one, unfortunately, is not so separable from "sxmo" proper. mayhaps someone will do that someday and instead of installing sxmo, you'll instead install sway + bonsai + lisgd + "sxmenu" and it'll be a bit less coupled, a bit less buggy. i don't think sxmo is likely to evolve into that on its own though. it'll probably be that a new thing fills that "sxmenu" space instead.