Sway-DE VS dotfiles

A wrapper script so that bemenu always looks the same: https://github.com/Madic-/Sway-DE/blob/master/bin/bemenu-run.sh

Waybar is working reliable for me. It maybe crashes once a month. But when it crashes, it's being automatically restarted by a systemd user unit

I know. But this requires way more overhead. For my professional ansible usage we do prefer the usage of group_vars. But for my simple dotfiles management it's to much. My dotfiles are managed with three small playbooks and templates

Create some systemd units with what you want to happen before and after unlocking your session. Here are the units I use. gdmflex.service is what takes you to GDM and lock-sway.service locks the session before getting to the GDM screen. The latter is a MUST! To lock the session I use loginctl lock-session.

I have created a lock.target and an unlock.target. When lock.target starts, it starts swaylock.

If you want to copy-paste my config, at least my current one, you will need sessionctl in your path and executable. I made this, because having those commands in my config, didn't give me the flexibility I wanted.

I wrote this one today (you can find the code here, but it wasn't really a pleasant experience. I don't want any extra dependencies for small scripts like this, but there must be an easier way to create something like this in a few minutes.

check out my config files for i3 https://github.com/ispanos/dotfiles/tree/master/.config/i3