manjaro-sway VS sway

I added a really short example for a keyboard configuration to our support document: https://github.com/manjaro-sway/manjaro-sway/blob/main/SUPPORT.md

Your best bet is checking the Manjaro Sway GitHub at https://github.com/manjaro-sway/manjaro-sway You can search the Issues to see if anyone else is running into the same error or check the FAQ.

If you want to see how nicely configured Sway looks like, then download the Manjaro Sway into your Ventoy2Disk formatted usb and try it by booting in Live mode: https://manjaro-sway.download/

[https://manjaro-sway.download/

Full discussion on GitHub- manjaro-sway/manjaro-sway/discussions/459

Thanks for the honorable mention of Manjaro Sway edition! I always look a little towards nix, void an Solus too, but loosing the aur would be to big of a sacrifice for me.

Yep, though I tend to use Sway.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).