r/swaywm

Hello, I have built a small Wayland tool called shmooz.

It's a simple tool that just zooms the current Wayland output, lets you pan around, draw a few annotations, use a spotlight around the pointer, and save or copy what is currently visible.

I wrote it mostly because I wanted something simple for presentations, screen sharing, and pointing at things without dragging a full screenshot editor into the workflow.

It can currently:

• zoom and pan the focused output
• spotlight on pointer
• draw basic annotations: pen, highlighter, lines, rectangles, ellipses, text
• save/copy as a screenshot

Example on how to bind it in sway: (i havent tested other wayland compositor but that probably would work)

bindsym $super+b exec pgrep shmooz && killall shmooz || shmooz --zoom-in 10% --output "$(swaymsg -t get_outputs | jq -r 'map(select(.focused == true)) | .[].name')"

The project is written in Rust and uses Wayland/layer-shell. It is still young, so expect rough edges. I have only tested the workflow I use myself.

Repo:

https://github.com/chmouel/shmooz

AUR package is available as well.

I downloaded it but it doesnt have any premade out of the box usable themes so i wanted to look for dotfiles but they are all too complicated with 15-20 apps alongside it. Could anyone help me set up or have an easy to apply config

name of this post sounds kinda clickbait,

but im genuinely curious about what makes Sway stands out from other wms and especially from i3wm.

p.s.: im sorry if this post in any way violating this sub rules or of this post is often/common. beat me to same post if there is one🙏. i really love all the linux users and just want to know more about this one wm

Edit: Thanks for everybody answers!

https://preview.redd.it/4ysqd625pi1h1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=a3de4c3224e2ecea3dab3ad9b74c70a68685c46a

With scale 1, we see that the UI elements are just too small: look at the size of the notification (notify-send "so small"), the search bar and tabs of the browser.

But, with scale 2, the same UI elements are way blown out of proportion.

Yet, the use of fractional scaling is discouraged by the Sway docs... So what is the correct solution here?

Stuff like app launcher, notification daemon, screenshot app, clipboard manager, wallpaper manager, polkit, and other stuff you find useful, or fun like a emoji picker. If you also want to explain why you chose that specific tool/util I will greatly appreciate it.

When opening a game with gamescope with the -f command my wm crashes entirely. This does not happen if I open it windowed and then fullscreen with sway's key bind. I don't understand why this happen and leads to some latency issues caused by gamescope due to me playing on windowed. Any ideas of what could be happening?

Hi,

im new to sway and was wondering how i can get darkmode for GTK and qt apps? ( thunar, obsidian, librewolf etc)
I tried putting this in my config, but doesnt seem to have any effect.

exec_always {

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface color-scheme 'prefer-dark'

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme 'Adwaita-dark'

}

EDIT:
Ive got xdg-desktop-portal-1.21.1-1.fc44.x86_64 installed and
systemctl --user status xdg-desktop-portal

● xdg-desktop-portal.service - Portal service

Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/xdg-desktop-portal.service; static)

Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/user/service.d

└─10-timeout-abort.conf

....

For the longest time, I have workspaces done all on my left hand--this makes sense to me since following e.g. "focus workspace" or "move to workspace" use the chances of using the mouse is high so my right hand is already ready. However, I have Super+{tab,q,w,e,1,2,3} keys to switch to workspaces and where holding Ctrl (Capslock in my case since I have it has Ctrl when held and ESC when tapped, a common layer key remapping) moves the active window to the target workspace.

With this setup I am developing thumb pain due to the thumb tuck to press the Super key. To workaround this, I have Tab key mapped to super and use my pinky instead.

I plan to move to a 34-key split keyboard approach with homerow mods but would still like to find a solution for traditional keyboard layout (still useful when using laptop's builtin keyboard). I'm not sure I'd want to commit to the learning curve of homerow mods on a qwerty keyboard without first gathering other people's experiences with this since homerow mods on 34-key split keyboard is already quite the investment itself (I'm not sure it's that trivial to switch between 34-key homerow mod setup vs traditional keyboard homerow mod setup--to me the cognitive overhead makes me hesitant to simply try homerow mods on traditional keyboard setup).

Curious any ideas how you guys are dealing with this. I don't want to use modes or nested bindings to do something as frequent as switching workspaces and moving windows.

i noticed some icons that were displaying on waybar burned into the screen even when booted into windows. It's gradually faded and is mostly gone now. Any way to prevent this in the future? Any idea what causes this? Never had this problem on x11 or windows, on any machine before. (including those os on this laptop, fw13)

Hi, I have a wallpaper file about 3840x1080 and want to set it as a continuous wallpaper encompassing both my montitors.

Can I do it with swaybg? I can't seem to find proper documentation for swaybg and the manpage doesn't seem to suggest anything either.

Is this possible to do with swaybg? Or do I have to split it to two files?