wayfire VS Hyprland

Unusable until moving your mouse to the edges of the screen and clicking makes it hit the scrollbar, or the exit button. Right now it initiates a resize.

Illustrated example from a different compositor https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire/issues/570

It's the only DE I'm excited about it so I hope they fix that. Very very promising and the best part is that it made the GNOME people mad.

GNOME: "Sorry I don't see the use case for that, PR closed. Make your own project. "

One of the developers just responded on the github issue referecing this thread.

"After a bit of discussion on HackerNews, I got a bit better understanding of the actual problem. People don't want to just configure the keys according to a particular layout - the actual 'issue' here is that they expect the key binding changes together with the layout. Unfortunately, the 0.8.0 changes didn't make this possible to implement as a plugin.

I would reconsider adding this as an option if there are enough interested people. React with a thumbs up to this comment if you are interested in having this option (though the defaults will certainly remain as they are now). Please, react only if you actually use Wayfire or would use it if it had this feature :)"

https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire/issues/1601#issuecommen...

I have been on Wayfire for over a year now, and I can't possibly praise it enough. It's entirely modular, so you can make it look and behave exactly as you want. It does tiling, it does Compiz-style wobbly windows and 3D desktop cubes, configurable rules and hotkeys, everything. It's stable and handles gaming flawlessly.

Your impression of Wayland is going to be very much determined by the quality of the compositor implementing it, and I've found Wayfire to be the best, by far - but oddly, also the one least talked about. Everybody's paying attention to stuff like Hyprland, Sway and Mutter - you're barking up the wrong tree there. Wayfire is fantastic, has most of the bells and whistles Compiz on X11 has, and is as pretty or as functional as you want it to be.

- VR support

I thought so too not long ago, but Wayland compositors needed some time to mature, and some of them are getting pretty damn good. Ever since I discovered Wayfire I'm a total believer, it's better than any X window management solution I've used. Much lighter too.

might be a small window when wayfire releases a version, before master identfies as the next release number. (see: https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire/blob/master/meson.build )

If you go to the homepage: https://hyprland.org/

It says "Tiling Compositor" as its first words. That's what it is.

It's not a "window manager" since that's an X11 term, and this is a Wayland Compositor, not an X11 Window Manager.

I feel like the landing page explains very clearly what it is for the target audience, which is someone who uses wayland and knows what a tiling compositor is.

and yet hyprland uses a CoC?

https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT...

I joined the hyprland discord after seeing many reports of hyprland having a "toxic" community to verify the claims myself, I must say I'm disappointed. I expected to see some real raunchy stuff, instead it's quite literally one of the most trans-positive and otherwise politically milquetoast servers I'm in.

The initial rules post you have to agree to before gaining access to the server has hundreds of reactions of various trans flag emotes too.[0]

What's the problem here? The whole drama seems like virtue-signalling politically-correct FOSS devs attacking other politically-correct FOSS devs.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/HKrFtbZ

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.

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...

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.

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.

https://hyprland.org/

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.