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sway
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Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion
> basically no good if you're any different from the people who hacked it together.
Why would you expect it any different? How can one implement things that they have no need or no hardware for? The entitlement is a bit jarring.
Also I think they merged something last year: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/pull/7681
- Sway 1.10 Released
- Sway 1.10 Is Released
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Pomodoro Timer: Waybar and uair
I am currently using uair integrated in to my Waybar running on my sway window manager. I use it similar to the way I use watson (both as a CLI tool with Waybar integrations), so it is a good fit for me.
- Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor
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Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for Nvidia Users
It used to be called `-my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia `
https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/3334d11adc926c0f6d86afc4...
- 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.
weston
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Cursor scaling on Wayland is not there yet
I decided to investigate how different Wayland client implementations behave with cursor scaling across 4 different Wayland compositors at different scale factors to get an overview of the situation. Below are my findings. As you can see, cursor scaling on Wayland is messy, with the reference Wayland compositor implementation Weston performing the worst. If you find my data to be incorrect please provide your findings in the comments.
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Think twice before abandoning Xorg. Wayland breaks everything!
Mutter is not the “official Wayland implementation”. Wayland has one reference implementation: Weston https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston
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i like violence
If you want Wayland, labwc (GitHub link) aims to be very close to openbox, so it should pop in pretty easily. That being said, Weston (Gitlab link) seems like the best implementation of a wayland compositor right now.
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How do I manually edit the GUI in Ubuntu or any Linux distro?
Weston is a simple wayland one. Wayland does basically what X11 does, but wayland is the modern one that X's legacy baggage: X11 even printing directly part of it.
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[SimpleWM] Sometimes you just have to make things from scratch
For example code there is the weston repository.
What are some alternatives?
Hyprland - Hyprland is an independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
labwc - A Wayland window-stacking compositor
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
wayland-protocols - Wayland protocol development (mirror)
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
greenfield - HTML5 Wayland compositor :seedling:
qtile - :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)
musca - Musca is a simple window manager for X allowing both tiling and stacking modes.
void-packages - The Void source packages collection
dotfiles - My personal dotfiles
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
simplewm