I've always been an user of Sway, but I tried Hyprland for a few weeks and I liked it. However, despite the awesome project it is, it's not as stable as Sway, and many things break.

I changed back to Swayfx, and the only thing I miss is Hyprland's scratchpad. The ability of making windows tiled and have them all at once, instead of having to cycle through them.

Is there any way to replicate this on Sway?

I have an ultrawide monitor and opening the first window just maks it far too big. I would rather have it use something like 3/5 of the width. Bit that ain't possible in sway.

How are other people handling this ?

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!

Heya!

So I'm a Arch Linux/Sway user, and I've found a minor frustration when trying to pick a lock screen manager. With hyprlock, I can full customize it excepting videos or gifs. It has to be static. And with swaylock (and swaylock-plugin), I can't customize it as much but I can use a video backgrounds.

Is there any package out there that can do both full customization, but also supports videos or gifs for the backgrounds?

Thanks

Sway (QT,GTK)

Managed to get somewhere!

Follow Up to Week One! Week two is down and figured I'd jump in and update.

I got screenshots working!... Kinda... I searched and found grim and bound that to Mod+Shift+S, now I just gotta figure out how to like add a date/time to the screenshot, right now I'm overwriting the same screenshot file so I can only have one at a time unless I rename it hahahaha

Managed to get gaps working, Turns out the gaps don't update when you use `swaymsg reload`, you need to fully quit the session and then log back in? At least that's what fixed it for me, I assumed a reload would have worked but I guess not! Then after a restart to update... Poof they're working so It was a fluke but we're here.

I was able to style the waybar I don't think it looks too bad, though I'm probably going to keep tweaking, make it a bit darker to match the terminal background darkness better.

I was able to get desktop backgrounds working, and I set it up to pick a random one when it reloads. Eventually I'll set it up to update every X minutes or whatever, but for that I know I need like a systemd service for it, so I'll set that up eventually, for now this works.

I thought I figured out how to set the background image for swayidle/swaylock, It was working, but now it's just white... and I don't know why... So Things to eventually figure out.

I'm also only now finding out there's a difference between "sway" and "swayfx" and I feel like it took too long to find someone mentioning "swayfx" at all. It seems most people just refer to swayfx as sway which has been super confusing haha!

Like I would see people's "sway" dotfiles, see a "corner_radius" option go "Oh that sounds nice", add it to my config, and then get an error that says it doesn't exist. So I would go searching through the manual and see that the option didn't exist, so yeah that's... odd... clearly it's working for other people using "sway" but it's not working for me...

Only for me to realize weeks later that there's a different thing people also call sway which has extra visual features RIP me.

So might mess with uninstalling sway and installing swayfx, I'm backing up my configs before, and this system has nothing important on it so don't worry about me breaking my environment and needing to do a full reinstall lol If that's what it takes, I'll figure it out hahaha

Here's looking forward to another good week!

Ohh and I sticker bombed the laptop for fun

Found a package of stickers my sister had and realized I had free will and stole them

Hello!

I'm pretty new to everything that has anything to do with linux and ricing and I've been following some tutorials/instructions for arch linux installation and its ricing.

After getting a decent installation with gnome, I started trying to learn about the ricing part.

In my case, what I followed recommended a series of stuff to install, and one of them was ly and the window manager Sway.

After first creating the config file in /.config/sway/ directory and copying its default config file into it I saved and rebooted to sign in with sway, but an error with several red lines that disappear in a very fast period of time log me out before even getting where I wanted.

I'm pretty lost and would gracefully take some help from someone with experience.

Good Tuesday!

I just switched from i3 to sway. Zathura scrolling (i have smooth scrolling disabled) is laggy and choppy on sway. Here are the things I've tried:

• I have a 2k display and I'm using fractional scaling (1.5x). Setting the scale to 1x or 2x makes the scrolling smooth again.
• Running zathura with gtk backend set to x11 also makes it scroll smoothly (even at 1.5x scaling).
• Zooming out on the pdf to original size gives smooth scrolling on wayland. Zooming back in to fit to width gives smooth scrolling immediately for about quarter of a second before becoming choppy again.

Is there a way to fix this, or should I just run it on x11 backend?