Hyprland VS sway

Ghostty turned on Discussions and made it the first place for users to go report bugs, make feature requests, etc., then promotes those to issues once it's detailed enough for the maintainers to accept: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/3558

Later, Hyprland followed suit: https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/issues/9854

I'm sure there are other projects doing the same, but those are the two I know about off the top of my head.

Upstream Hyprland: https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland

Some context for anyone unfamiliar with the linux desktop space:

Hyprland is a "wayland compositor" (roughly analogous to an X Window Manager) that is under active community development: https://hypr.land

Wayland is considered the future of the linux desktop and is what projects like Valve's SteamDeck are using: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope

It's known that Hyprland Premium is going to include a bunch of pre-made dotfiles including a Quickshell bar config, if you want to see the current top-tier rice: https://quickshell.outfoxxed.me/

> If you’re someone who grew up on Macs there’s almost nothing in the Linux desktop space that tries to replicate that set of patterns… it’s all Win9X-type taskbar setups, mobile-type setups (GNOME, Pantheon), old niche *nix setups (e.g. WindowMaker), and of course minimal tiling WMs. There’s no clones of Mac OS of any flavor.

Have you seen [Hyprland](https://hyprland.org)?

If you go to the homepage: https://hyprland.org/

It says "Tiling Compositor" as its first words. That's what it is.

It's not a "window manager" since that's an X11 term, and this is a Wayland Compositor, not an X11 Window Manager.

I feel like the landing page explains very clearly what it is for the target audience, which is someone who uses wayland and knows what a tiling compositor is.

and yet hyprland uses a CoC?

https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT...

I joined the hyprland discord after seeing many reports of hyprland having a "toxic" community to verify the claims myself, I must say I'm disappointed. I expected to see some real raunchy stuff, instead it's quite literally one of the most trans-positive and otherwise politically milquetoast servers I'm in.

The initial rules post you have to agree to before gaining access to the server has hundreds of reactions of various trans flag emotes too.[0]

What's the problem here? The whole drama seems like virtue-signalling politically-correct FOSS devs attacking other politically-correct FOSS devs.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/HKrFtbZ

With the next release of sway (1.12) you should be able to share individual windows.

https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr/issues/10...

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/8170#issuecomment-3962...

Been using sway for many years before moving to niri last year.

Outside of the fundamental window management differences, I find that a lot of stuff with niri is easier to make work, or just happens to work out of the box. Screen sharing with sway was always a problem for me[1], whereas for niri it works great (incl. sharing individual windows only[2].) I also found that niri is much better at letting hardware go to sleep (which saves 10W on my GPU.)

[1]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/7898 etc.

[2]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/issues/3864

> basically no good if you're any different from the people who hacked it together.

Why would you expect it any different? How can one implement things that they have no need or no hardware for? The entitlement is a bit jarring.

Also I think they merged something last year: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/pull/7681

I am currently using uair integrated in to my Waybar running on my sway window manager. I use it similar to the way I use watson (both as a CLI tool with Waybar integrations), so it is a good fit for me.

It used to be called `-my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia `

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/3334d11adc926c0f6d86afc4...