sway
swappy
Our great sponsors
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
sway
- Sway is an i3-compatible Wayland compositor
- Sway 1.9 Release
- Sway 1.9
-
"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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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
-
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.
-
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).
swappy
-
MSPaint like tool for Linux
I think swappy works great as a screenshot annotation tool.
-
Trying to use Swappy for the First Time
It will save the file in save_dir (see config section)
-
Suggest me: Screenshot tool with anotation
Use any wayland compatible screenshot tool and pipe it into Swappy
-
bindsym not working with flameshot
I combine grimshot + swappy to get something similar to Flameshot. Not as good, but it has the advantage of... actually working on Sway.
-
How I chose the right screenshot tool for my Linux
I personally use grim + slurp + swappy, and i love it! :)
-
redshift like gui application
If you want to edit the screenshot, pipe it through swappy
-
swaywm color picker
For those sort of simple jobs, you might find that swappy is enough (and much faster to start and simpler to use).
-
Screenshot in Sway
My fav is swappy.
-
Lighter alternative to GIMP?
Sounds like Swappy. https://github.com/jtheoof/swappy
-
What apps are you running on Sway? (Wayland Native Apps of course)
Screenshots: grim + slurp + swappy
What are some alternatives?
Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
grim - Grab images from a Wayland compositor
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
mpv-image-viewer - Configuration, scripts and tips for using mpv as an image viewer
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
sway-borders - Fork of sway with some extra features, mainly related to borders.
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
qutebrowser - A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt.
awesome-wayland - A curated list of Wayland code and resources.
clipman - A simple clipboard manager for Wayland
qtile - :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)
flameshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash: