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MIT License | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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sway
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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.
- Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Makes for a Great Linux Laptop
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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).
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The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant
Sensitive features like screenshots, input methods, screen locking and whatnot are behind extensions (or portals). I'm not familiar with the state of GNOME/KDE/Flatpak, but at least on the wlroots side of things it is true that currently these extensions are enabled and accessible by any process that can talk to the Wayland socket (breaking those security benefits, as you say). This is changing with protocols such as security-context that allow a sandbox engine like Flatpak (or your custom scripts) to restrict what features apps can use. (so your browser can't register an input method, or some random app can't lock the screen)
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/m...
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Rethinking Window Management in Gnome
sway does all those things very well: https://swaywm.org/
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Using nwg-wrapper for a HUD of help for sway modes
I've added it to https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Useful-add-ons-for-sway
- What is a good windows tiling manager for beginners?
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Wayland Is Pretty Good
https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/4763
sad to see another linux api design failure
- A linux newbie has installed and configured Arch. Minimalist graphical capabilities?
deskreen
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Is there a way to make ubuntu 23.10 think it has a monitor connected when headless?
Or if you are an experienced user of your operating system, you can find solutions on how to create a virtual display without a need for Virtual Display Adapter in the following link: https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen/discussions/86
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Android 14 adds support for using your smartphone as a webcam
Use a vnc client on your android device and setup a virtual monitor on your desktop that is really a vnc server.
I know how to do that with Sway and swayvnc on wayland, as well as with xorg.
https://superuser.com/questions/1434779/using-a-tablet-as-a-...
https://www.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/k1zl41/thank_you_de...
This is particularly helpful to people using asahi linux and wanting to connect an external monitor. That can be done with something as simple as a raspberry pi.
EDIT: apparently this project help achieving the same thing on different OS but using webRTC and a browser:
- How do I use my laptop as a monitor of another laptop?
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How can i create a virtual display on X11? [Amd]
Generic X: https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen/issues/42
I Need to create a virtual display for use with sunshine streaming software, ideally at 1440p or 4k resolution, I've tried using a dummy driver but that disables my actual display input, and enabling an inactive display source using xrandr and setting a resolution to that causes the system to kernel panic
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Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer?
I use Deskreen with Windows, it has a Linux version that probably works similarly. I think it leverages browser streaming tech.
Easiest way to get it working is with a dummy plug, but maybe there's more options on Linux to fake a display in software.
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T1 Sandwich with 7950X & 7900 XTX
Deskreen and a dummy monitor plug. It’s wireless so it has pretty bad latency but lets you turn any web browser into a second monitor. Good enough for discord or spotify.
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Use a laptop as a 2nd display on Linux using FreeRDP
There's a big thread about this on the deskreen repo [0], maybe they've found something new since I last checked it.
There is, however, a very good remote virtual monitor solution called Spacedesk [1], which has a windows server (with virtual display driver included) and a JavaScript client that runs in any browser (it refuses to run in Firefox, but if you just comment out that line of code it works perfectly fine).
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Barrier Alternative
not with an iPad, unfortunately: Apple has those locked down tight. the best you can do is use something like Deskreen to use the iPad as a second monitor (it uses Safari as a VNC client to extend a virtual display from your linux desktop)
- App for screen mirroring pc to android?
What are some alternatives?
Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
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
qtile - :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)
VirtScreen - Make your iPad/tablet/computer into a secondary monitor on Linux.
Weylus - Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on your computer.
wslg - Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios
scrcpy - Display and control your Android device
Waybar - Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada: