wlr-protocols VS sway

Applications like Wofi or Waybar use the wlr-layer-shell protocol to control their windows. Sway does not manage these windows so they will not appear in the tree. If you are familiar with X11, its somewhat analogous to the override-redirect flag.

Info on the libs which implement https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols would be appreciated aswell. 😊

wlr- is the wlroots custom compositor protocol prefix. Protocols for wlroots are unlikely to be implemented by other compositors unless they are submitted to be standardized in wayland-protocols.

Have you tried looking at this list? (from the wlroots wiki).

If you want a full list of apps using wlr-protocols, there is https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols/wiki. Let me know if anything's missing there.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).