dotfiles VS sway-systemd

I'm in the middle of switching now, from Silverblue. It's a lot of fun. The Arch wiki to do something will have you changing three files and restarting 2 services, while with NixOS you add a line to your config and you're done. And when something doesn't exist as a Nix package/config, it seems somewhat easy to build your self (compared to other package managers, at least). I realized there's no "game-devices" package last night, for example, but I was able to get this working in about an hour of Googling:

https://github.com/pkulak/dotfiles/blob/nix/nix/gamedevices....

Still not all the way in. Like, I'm still going to use Chezmoi for my home directory because I don't quite see the value-add of Home Manager, but who knows; maybe I'll be a super fan next year and move everything over.

Fonts were always a PITA for me too, until I realized you can just drop whatever you want in ~.local/share/fonts. Then you can even track them with whatever dotfile manager you use and always have them available on every machine you use, immutable or not. There's zero need to involve a package manager.

I just have a wrapper script that I run instead of sway itself.

That doesn't fly with me. I just use Alacritty and re-bind the keys so I can still use ctrl-c and v:

https://github.com/pkulak/dotfiles/blob/master/.config/alacr...

This runs Sway in the context of a systemd service, so it will inherit systemd's environment. I use sway-systemd to import stuff like WAYLAND_DISPLAY into the systemd context among other things. My custom env vars are in .config/environment.d which will be loaded by systemd automatically: Sway env, generic Wayland env

Thanks, I had some time and was able to get the service working after following your suggestion. I came across sway-systemd and that along with seeing how you did things made things a lot clearer. The following service should execute the script and let it finish (it finishes in less than a second) before exiting the graphical session, right? Would it be possible to modify it to run it even earlier after killing sway (or right before)? save-desktop-settings.service:

Anyways, I did that to address the same issue with Sway in Fedora and the script should be fully functional with i3. Feel free to try if you're willing to give systemd-oomd another chance. And here is a little extra to go even further and isolate individual windows in tmux.