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13,749 | 16,428 | |
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9.2 | 9.9 | |
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MIT License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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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).
Hyprland
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Wayland breaks your bad software
I've been wanting to try http://hyprland.org/, but since plasma gets me far enough and provides a working taskbar (wifi, sound, bluetooth, mount, clipboard) and virtual desktops on which I end up opening just firefox and emacs I haven't really given it a chance.
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Hyprland Crash Course
Hyprland builds using a pinned commit of wlroots instead of a tagged release because wlroots release schedule is too slow for Hyprland's development [0]
This turns into a problem for maintainers because many distributions refuse to ship non tagged versions of software
Hyprland used to depend on wlroots-git, but when it made the switch to use specific pinned commits a lot more distributions started to package it [1], but some still refuse to do so such as Debian.
[0] https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprland/issues/302#issuecomment-1...
[1] https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_request...
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Improving cursor rendering on Wayland
I have Hyprland a try some weeks/months ago, and seemingly it had a video memory leak where after some hours of usage, it ended up taking more than 5GB of VRAM, with no signs of slowing down.
I found one issue (https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/issues/1504) mentioning something similar, but it was closed and I was still experiencing the same issue, so not sure what's going on.
Gnome3 doesn't manifest the same issue, so worth checking out if it happens to you if you're curious about moving from Gnome to Hyprland.
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RubyWM – an X11 window manager in pure Ruby
I've been an X11 holdout since forever, but after nvidia proprietary drivers broke for the millionth time on a system upgrade, I switched over to Nouveau and the "Hyprland" tiling compositor on Wayland. It's the only setup that felt worth the upgrade to me. Setup was easy, animations are very slick (scroll down on the link below for a sample), and I've had no bugs or quirks. Highly recommend checking it out if you're bored or curious.
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Is there any transparent themes for GTK 2 or QT?
I did some research as far as I know there isn't really a way for it to have a transparent window but not transparent text although I found this, basically change the opacity of the window/program. You can also set active and inactive opacity on the window if that's any help.
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Hyprland broken config file :c
# Monitor Configs # source https://wiki.hyprland.org/Configuring/Monitors/#general monitor=,preferred,auto,1 # for pluggin' in random monitors monitor=,highrr,auto,1 # prefer high refresh rate for all monitors input { kb_layout= kb_variant=ffffff kb_model= kb_options=compose:rctrl,level3:ralt_switch kb_rules= follow_mouse=1 touchpad { natural_scroll=yes disable_while_typing=true scroll_factor=1 } } misc { disable_hyprland_logo=true animate_mouse_windowdragging=false # this fixes the laggy window movement (source: https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/issues/1753) animate_manual_resizes=false # fixes slow resizes } general { #sensitivity=1.0 # for mouse cursor gaps_in=8 gaps_out=15 border_size=4 col.active_border=0xfff5c2e7 col.inactive_border=0xff45475a col.group_border=0xff89dceb col.group_border_active=0xfff9e2af apply_sens_to_raw=0 # whether to apply the sensitivity to raw input (e.g. used by games where you aim using your mouse)
- Ghost anime girl when moving Firefox windows sometimes
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Regular package vs git package
Therefore I am considering switching to hyprland-nvidia-git, but when I look at its AUR page (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hyprland-nvidia-git) it says 0.31 as the version, whereas the latest version is 0.32 (https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/releases). I thought the git package would be cutting edge "automatically", but perhaps I'm missing something...?
- Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Makes for a Great Linux Laptop
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Drop-down alacritty terminal on Hyprland
This is what I've found so far:
What are some alternatives?
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
awesome - awesome window manager
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
awesome-wayland - A curated list of Wayland code and resources.
qtile - :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)
xmonad - The core of xmonad, a small but functional ICCCM-compliant tiling window manager
bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning
swayfx - SwayFX: Sway, but with eye candy!