Sway Alternatives

Reviews and mentions

• Why is Wayland the way that it is
  reddit.com/r/archlinux | 2021-09-21

  It seems technically possible for a Wayland compositor to implement these things, but at least for Sway there are no plans to (see sway#3380). And unlike with Xorg, you can't use a separate tool to add these effects to a compositor that doesn't already support them.

• firefox 92.0-2 not opening any submenus
  reddit.com/r/archlinux | 2021-09-21

  It looks similar to this: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/6147 If it's the case, you need to rebuild gtk3 with the fixes from this comment (https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/6147#issuecomment-920761907) or just wait until it will be merged.

  reddit.com/r/archlinux | 2021-09-21
• Sway completely locks up the system when started
  reddit.com/r/swaywm | 2021-09-21

  At first I was having the issue described here: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/4672

• xkbcomp errors/warnings
  reddit.com/r/swaywm | 2021-09-20
• Krohnkite still does not work in Wayland, and it has not been updated in more than a year. Any alternatives? Is it Kwin's fault?
  reddit.com/r/kde | 2021-09-19

  More specifically, see: awesome-wayland and arewewaylandyet. Sway-addons also has interesting stuff in it, like wl-clipboard which is mostly compatible with Klipper.

• What window manager should I try next?
  reddit.com/r/linuxquestions | 2021-09-17

  sway because Wayland is the future and it's _really_ neat

• XWayland cursor freezes when holding down mouse button and pressing a keyboard key
  reddit.com/r/swaywm | 2021-09-17

  If you have hide_cursor set to when-typing, maybe it's this bug/feature: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/6297

• Copy url via mouse not working in sway compiled on Ubuntu 20.04
  reddit.com/r/swaywm | 2021-09-14
• Why Is Gnome The Only Thing That Looks Good On 4K Monitor?
  reddit.com/r/linux4noobs | 2021-09-09

  Have you tried Sway?

• Why does nvidia have such a bad relationship with Apple and why don’t they release their drivers for Linux machines?
  reddit.com/r/hardware | 2021-09-09
• firefox 92 - doesnt render menus (burger menu, right click menu, etc)
  reddit.com/r/swaywm | 2021-09-09

  Looks like this is fixed both in GTK3 and Firefox so will eventually trickle down to you depending on your distro: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/6426

  reddit.com/r/swaywm | 2021-09-09
• Possible to reload sway config without wiping wallpaper?
  reddit.com/r/swaywm | 2021-09-09

  How are you running the swaymsg bg on a variable? Do you have issues with wallpaper filenames with spaces and/or parentheses? I'm experiencing the issue described here.

• Might be a stupid question but what if I don't want a GUI desktop environment?
  reddit.com/r/Ubuntu | 2021-09-08

  Sway -- https://swaywm.org/