Sway Reviews and details

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• "We understand" ;)

  This is partially why I use tools like i3 (/ sway). I like the tool; it works extremely well for me; the design has stayed the same for 20 years; there's no profit motive to come along and fuck everything up. It just works. It is boring in the best way possible. Source: 5 months ago

• Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Makes for a Great Linux Laptop

  I've tested using i3 but never fully got into it. But my plan for the F13 is to try out Hyprland[0] and perhaps Sway[1]. [0] https://hyprland.org/ [1] https://swaywm.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Rethinking Window Management in Gnome

  Sway does all those things very well: https://swaywm.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Just ran Sway on openSUSE. Complete noob. I need help.

  Read the manual on https://swaywm.org/. There are tons of youtube videos showcasing basic configuration and usage. This is extremely basic stuff you need to do yourself. Source: 11 months ago

• Thinking about doing distro hop after half a year any recommendations?

  While both the Pop Shell and Material shell extensions offer very easy access to window tiling on GNOME, they're not as powerful as the likes of Sway or Hyprland. Source: 11 months ago

• tiling window manager

  If I wanted to run a tiling WM now I'd try out sway, which bills itself as a drop-in replacement for i3 on Wayland. Source: 11 months ago

• Asahi Linux To Users: Please Stop Using X.Org

  Sway is supposed to be a drop-in replacement for i3. And they're probably the biggest outside of Gnome and KDE, so the support should be pretty good -- they maintain wlroots, which is what all the smaller Wayland compositors use. Source: 12 months ago

• My full desktop mode rice. Replaced KDE with i3 and mapped everything I need to use it to controls with steam input.

  If you like i3, you might want to try https://swaywm.org/. Source: 12 months ago

• Switching between desktop mode and game mode restarts?

  I got fed up enough that I put a launcher for a "Desktop Mode" inside gaming mode. (I actually use use a tiling window manager called Sway instead of KDE because I've always felt I wasn't a real Linux dude if I didn't have rice). Source: about 1 year ago

• Why Use Linux?

  Here's another big one. I have an inflammatory condition that occasionally makes using a mouse painful and a trackpad very inaccurate. On a Mac, I'm just screwed. On Windows, I'm more screwed than I used to be (through XP, Windows was completely navigable via the keyboard, as was Office). On BSD or Linux, I can replace the GUI with programs like Sway or i3, which not only makes the UI more keyboard-friendly,... Source: about 1 year ago

• Linux vs. Mac

  - iCloud sync. I use an iPhone and frequently make use of iMessage, photos, and clipboard syncing between devices. I know that you can replicate a lot of that with Android and Linux, but at this point I'm pretty deep in Apple's ecosystem and am unlikely to switch away anytime soon. The biggest thing I miss is having a good tiling window manager experience. I have a desktop running Sway[0] and really love it. I've... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• I3 Lock Blur

  I know this is gonna be downvoted, but if you decide to move to sway in the future, you have swaylock-effects to do exactly that. Source: about 1 year ago

• Replacing Win 11 with Arch on my laptop

  Once you start w/the Tiling WMs, everything else seems bloated and ineffecient. I3WM makes it easy to test Wayland too as ou can fire up a SWAY session instead and it will use your I3 configs. Source: about 1 year ago

• anyone knows how can i get waydroid running on i3

  If you really want to use waydroid then you can give Sway a go. It's an i3 drop-in replacement for Wayland. Source: about 1 year ago

• Can I get rid of my desktop environment and run programs from the terminal?

  Have a look at a tiling window manager such as sway On that website you can see a small demo video, I think this is most likely what you are looking for. Source: about 1 year ago

• Why didn't i discover this earlier

  i3wm is completely xorg based so Firefox is unable to use wayland client(don't get me wrong Firefox xorg client also works fine and completely usable), however there is sway wm if you want, which is wayland based and this trick will work. Source: about 1 year ago

• Elementary OS 7

  I have noticed in one of your comments in this thread that you are looking for novel ideas of the UI look. As others commenters stated, you might be interested in tiling window managers like i3 [0] or sway [1]. They are truly a gem for productivity and sometimes for an eye [2]. However, I love the concept of scrollable window manager like PaperWM [3] is. When I had a smaller screen (24" 16:9) I was complaining a... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Anyone here use tiling window managers?

  Hi! HHKB user since 2004. Linux user since '95. I've been using tiling window managers for about 20 years. I've tried a few. Ratpoison first, then ion, then xmonad, then spectrwm (which is my favourite), but since I moved to wayland a couple of years ago, I've settled on sway (https://swaywm.org/). Meta-Return spawns a terminal (https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot, which is blazingly fast, using very little resources).... Source: over 1 year ago

• Manjaro i3 user thinking of trying out Gnome looking for a bit of help

  GNOME is great but it'll never behave like i3. If you want something similar to i3 that works on Wayland, you've got Sway. Source: over 1 year ago

• Window size & placement [Wayland/GNOME]

  If you don't specifically care about using gnome you can probably still run some gnome services but just use sway/wlroots as your window manager/wayland compositor and use command criteria to assign windows to specific workspace and resize and move them, and configure keybindings or use sway-msg cli tool to manually arrange. Source: over 1 year ago

• The goal: Use Fedora 37 with Snapper to get a "riceable" Linux desktop that can be rolled back like a time machine (and some comments on why I don't use Silverblue)

  Thankfully there is progress on this, such as Sway and other wlroots based minimalist window managers. Source: over 1 year ago