pkgstats.archlinux.de
Arch Linux package statistics website (by archlinux-de)
sway
i3-compatible Wayland compositor (by swaywm)
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| pkgstats.archlinux.de | sway | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 613 | |
| 18 | 13,749 | |
| - | 1.6% | |
| 9.5 | 9.2 | |
| 4 days ago | 4 days ago | |
| PHP | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
pkgstats.archlinux.de
Posts with mentions or reviews of pkgstats.archlinux.de.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-15.
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New Arch user; how can I contribute?
You can install pkgstats.
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Statistics of Sway use in Archlinux
According to the stats from pkgstats sway is the most used window manager in archlinux (see here). At least from the among the people submitting data to pkgstats. These stats probably look very differently for other distros. What do you think?
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How many Arch Linux users are out there?
Thanks, I was just about to post that myself. On the pkgstats website you can find some statistics (they don't give absolute numbers, but I think you can easily get those with the API).
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Steve can suck my popsicle.
That's like saying that windows has high uptake solely because it's not customizable. GNOME is dominant because it comes preinstalled with Ubuntu, Fedora, etc. In every scenario where the user is expected to have some understanding of what is running on their machine, Plasma often beats GNOME by an incredibly wide margin(see: https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/). Plasma's issue isn't that it's customizable, it's issue is that distros and the plasma devs frequently include asinine defaults for no reason.
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Is there any telemetry I can install?
popcon for ARCH = https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/
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What DE/WM are using ?
The config for the "fun" page can be found at: https://github.com/archlinux-de/pkgstats.archlinux.de/blob/master/app/src/config/fun.json
sway
Posts with mentions or reviews of sway.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.
- 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).