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See also https://swaywm.org which seeks to implement i3 for wayland

> Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11. It works with your existing i3 configuration and supports most of i3's features, plus a few extras.

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I second sway! I have switched full-time from i3 sometime last year and haven't looked back. In my experience it's even more performant than i3 wayland has largely been a boon, except some odd programs that don't work even under x wayland (currently that's obs and meet.jit.si and zoom screen sharing)

The only thing one needs to do is configure environment variables to start qt and gtk apps in wayland mode.

obs is a qt app. If you start it with -platform xcb it overrides the environment variable set to use wayland and uses x instead. It works fine for me with that change.

Yes, that's what I've been doing. However, somehow screen-recording and video overlays don't seem to work (I don't use it enough to really chase down what's going on).

I use the wlrobs (https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wlrobs) plugin to do screen capture. I don't use obs much either, but it seems to work fine for my use case.

Thanks I didn't know that plugin. I will try it out next time.

The only thing I have against sway isn't actually a knock against it or wayland, but nvidia's drivers not supporting it. I simply can't leave my fancy gpu's power untapped, simply to use wayland.

Well. That takes me out for the same reason. Appreciate the info!

We just need some enterprising person to add EGLStreams support for wlroots (this actually used to exist in old sway versions). I'm not sure they would accept such a PR though. It's pretty irritating though that nvidia doesn't work with the general purpose APIs.

https://drewdevault.com/2017/10/26/Fuck-you-nvidia.html

Yeah that’s pretty old and Drew doesn’t even seem much involved in Sway anymore. He’s right but it still doesn’t stop someone from making an EGLStreams fork of wlroots - if I had the time I’d probably try this myself.

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