sway-borders VS sway

There's a fork called sway-borders that implements rounded corners outside of windows.

My configuration runs wayland with sway-borders, which I packaged by modifying the sway default.nix file in nixpkgs.

Well, there’s sway-borders, maybe you could find it useful

sway-borders

This is my first time trying to build and install a program from source. I am following this tutorial on Zorin 16 (Ubuntu 20.04 based) to install Sway-Borders but I am have a few questions:

kinda, but you can try forks like sway-borders (never used, not sure how it is)

Also I'm not sure if you've already found it but I saw your other post and there is a fork that adds rounded borders to sway.

This fork of Sway: https://github.com/fluix-dev/sway-borders

While trying to build sway-borders from github, it fails on my gentoo system running the stable branch's wlroots 12.0 package.

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).