u/AlanPartridgeIsMyDad

▲ 11 r/swaywm

Difficulties switching to sway

Hey all,

I've just switched to sway from plasma (fedora). However, I've encountered some difficulties that I couldn't seem find to answers for on the web.

  1. If I'm not mistaken by default, wmenu is the default launcher of sway. I really like the look of it - i.e. being integrated into the swaybar but it doesn't seem to index flatpaks. On plasma, I'm used to the launcher being very good at picking up what is necessary. I couldn't find anything on the web that described how I might change the indexing. AFAICT, it just looks for binaries in the PATH. I installed rofi, which seems to work fine, but it doesn't aethestically look as nice as wmenu. I assumed that the default launcher would be fit for use.

  2. Apps that go to the system tray when closed e.g. steam. I can't seem to interact with the icon in the swaybar. I tried changing the sway config with `tray_bindsym` (see https://man.archlinux.org/man/sway-bar.5.en#TRAY) to no avail - it seems to have had no impact.

  3. Some applications take a long time to load up. The one I specifically noticed was mullvad: I would launch from launcher and nothing would appear to happen. a few minutes later, it might pop up!

Thanks!

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