Sway 1.0-beta.1 release highlights
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has this been done ever before ?
In theory multiple mice and keyboards are possible on X too since late 80s/90s, at least assuming the XInput extension is available on the server since the core events do not provide any way to differentiate between devices. But like everything with X, the feature might be there, but it is up to the clients to actually use it and use it properly (which isn't always the case and a lot of "X cannot do <thing>" you hear really means "due to the way we use X, we cannot do <thing>"). And even if the feature is there, if it is a niche case, it may be so buggy that it isn't practically usable (of course this applies to almost every open source project that is older than a couple of years, especially those that are big and have a small number of contributors).
An example of this would be multiple focused windows (one per keyboard) - despite XInput allowing for such a thing, i doubt many window managers and toolkits would be able to handle it (and to be frank, neither does my own toolkit and most likely will never have support for it - it is so niche of a feature, it isn't worth the time and increase in complexity and potential future maintenance).
No idea about macOS.
Well over a decade ago, I had multiple keyboards with different layouts hooked up to my linux laptop, and could use both of them at the same time with no problem.
I'm not sure why this is supposed to be so novel.
Has anyone here gotten their i3 to behave like Xmonad? How is it? Care to share your config / tips for getting it rolling?
You can specify a fractional scale instead of a non-fractional one for the ui and then adjusting the fonts/using xrandr.
I hope these questions aren't too off-topic:
- How can I get GTK to stop ignoring my theme? It works with Qt using qtstyleplugins, but not with GTK itself, oddly enough. The theme also works fine when using the x11 backend.
- How can I force floating windows to have title bars? Calling 'swaymsg border normal' manually works, but I can't find a way to set a default. Setting 'default_floating_border normal' doesn't help.
- HiDPI support is claimed to be the best in sway, but Qt appears to ignore 'scale 1' on my HiDPI screen and displays it as 'scale 2'.
As for forcing floating windows to have title bars, you might have encountered a bug. Can you open a ticket?
Also, thank you for sway and wlroots!
I would also like to hear more detail about where you ran into issues with the source installation instructions.
The dream of Wayland ("soon!") has been out for many years, but it seems to finally become real.
Wayland can do redshift now? I thought it wasn't possible yet. Guess it's time to move off of Xorg.
I'm imagining something like Debian/Fedora/Ubuntu - Sway edition..
The desktop side of Linux makes me feel like I'm lost in the city where I live. Am I missing easy instructions to try this somewhere?
(No snark of any kind intended. Based on comments, I think this must be an amazing open source project. I'm just wondering how I can get myself started to see what it really is...)
Yes, I also dislike nvidia but a few years ago AMD was absolutely awful under Linux.
Yeah, not much wrong with i3 but I really like what you're doing with Sway. :)
I can assure you that these days are gone. I just got a new Thinkpad with a Ryzen APU and nearly [1] everything worked out of the box. The R9 Nano in my desktop also works perfectly with the AMDGPU driver.
[1] "Nearly" because I needed to add "iommu=soft" to the kernel parameters to get Linux to boot.
So unless you don't have a IGP and your motherboard doesn't have spare PCI-e slots, it is better to use a dual GPU approach of if you really need a NVIDIA card. Otherwise selling your NVIDIA card and buying a AMD one is a good choice.
Of course, YMMV and you know better than me what is good for you.