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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.

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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.

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