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| i3 | sway | |
|---|---|---|
| 74 | 613 | |
| 6,017 | 13,779 | |
| - | 1.8% | |
| 6.3 | 9.2 | |
| over 1 year ago | 7 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | MIT License |
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i3
- help i3/i3-gaps packages broken (i think)
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i3-gaps
why would you get a version that, by the author, has been archived: https://github.com/Airblader/i3
- The i3-gaps project has been merged with i3
sway
- Sway is an i3-compatible Wayland compositor
- Sway 1.9 Release
- Sway 1.9
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"We understand" ;)
This is partially why i use tools like i3 (/ sway). i like the tool; it works extremely well for me; the design has stayed the same for 20 years; there's no profit motive to come along and fuck everything up. it just works. it is boring in the best way possible.
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Firefox on the Brink?
I also have crashes on sway, but there’s a rough workaround now which prevents the issue totally.
I believe there’s a design issue with Firefox and GTK handling input events; some Wayland compositors have workarounds but others do not.
https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/7645
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1743144
Firefox is my preferred browser and I hope we can keep its engine alive in this era of Chrome dominance.
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Sourcing dot profile on sway starutp
I'm seeing this: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Setting-Environmental-Variables but I haven't figured out how to make GDM do it, and I was wondering if there was a super simple "HEY SWAY READ MY .PROFILE" thing I could do.
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Option to not scale xwindow clients still out of the question?
So I searched around and found the following bug report where this problem and a possible solution was borough up: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/2966 , which was then immediately closed again.
- Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Makes for a Great Linux Laptop
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What Desktop Environment or Window Manager do you use on your Arch Linux System and why?
I've been using Sway since late 2019. I like the workflow of a WM. I honestly find it hard to go back to a DE, I like having a minimalistic desktop.
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On Desktop GUI Minimalism
Sway is fast, minimal, and flexible. Their recommended tools/addons are worth a look: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Useful-add-ons-for-sway
From that list I use greetd + tuigreet as my login manager, sway-launcher-desktop for FZF-powered app launching, and wob for lightweight brightness and volume display (send '50' to the wob socket and it'll show 50%; it doesn't get simpler).
What are some alternatives?
i3-gaps - i3-gaps – i3 with more features (forked from https://github.com/i3/i3)
Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
nerd-fonts - Iconic font aggregator, collection, & patcher. 3,600+ icons, 50+ patched fonts: Hack, Source Code Pro, more. Glyph collections: Font Awesome, Material Design Icons, Octicons, & more
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
i3-gaps-wm - A fork of the i3 window manager with gaps and some other features
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
polybar-themes - A huge collection of polybar themes with different styles, colors and variants.
awesome-wayland - A curated list of Wayland code and resources.
Ulauncher - Feature rich application Launcher for Linux
qtile - :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)