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Does anyone else feel that Wayland is taking away the hackability of Xorg?
Yes, Wayland moves all X server responsibilities to the compositor, but that doesn't mean the compositor can't use libraries that help it implement practically everything the X server would provide - wlroots and wlc are two such libraries, and ASC is a Wayland compositor with Xwayland support built using wlc that itself only has about 250 lines of code, 100 of that being bindings for its Lua API. ASC on GitHub (let's hope automod only cares about top-level posts).
sway
- 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).
What are some alternatives?
qtile - :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)
Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
mcwayface - A simple demonstration Wayland server
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
dwl - dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
taiwins - taiwins, a modern wayland compositor
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
awesome-wayland - A curated list of Wayland code and resources.
bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning
wslg - Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios