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Hello!
Hi everyone!! I'm @sway-official, the totally official and real blog for the sway wayland compositor, blessed by Simon Ser himself. If you're going to refer to me I prefer she/her pronouns, but to be honest any work.
I use Sway, but I love all distros and desktops equally. Except for GNOME
do you have any suggestions for ricing a basic sway setup? no full and heavy suites, just very basic making the out of the box sway experience prettier
I'm not exactly a huge r/unixporn kind of person but I have some basic suggestions!
I love i3blocks, but personally I use waybar over swaybar. The swaybar system tray is kind of broken, which made the jump easy for me. Some example waybar configs are linked below. I also used SNC (sway notification centre) for notifications, and it integrates into waybar quite well (github linked below, but widely packaged). I assume you know how to change the default border colours and stuff (if not the catppuccin page for i3/sway explains it pretty well). My preference is to use a fairly big colourscheme such as catppuccin, gruvbox, dracula, nord or solarized so you can get your terminal, WM and other apps all looking the same (I ♥️ unified themes). Hope this helps, don't hesitate to shoot more questions at me!
🌻 Soothing pastel themes for i3 & sway. Contribute to catppuccin/i3 development by creating an account on GitHub.
A simple GTK based notification daemon for any Wayland compositor - ErikReider/SwayNotificationCenter
Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada: - Alexays/Waybar
Oh btw here's my desktop in case anyone is interested :3 I love Zenburn so much it's such a funky lil theme :33
@layover-linux-official Since you don't have an ask box
Can you tell me about your distro?
I'm very used to KDE and having Big Desktop Environment™ set up things like my DBUS session, system tray, notifications, clipboard management, and all that. But in the Before Times, I was a big i3 fan, and I think I'd like to experiment a bit.
Do you have any tips / suggestions for a comfy sway experience? I'm competent with reading the docs / code and all that, but they only go so far--I would love some more opinionated thoughts based on real world daily use.
Feel free to tell me to sod off, too, if you want, that's really quite okay :)
Okay! A few things of note (keeping in mind I use Void Linux, this might be sliiightly different on your distro of choice, obviously you know to check the docs etc) The default Swaybar's implementation of a system tray is iffy at best. If you make use of things like the NetworkManager applet and want to be able to actually click it and stuff use another bar, such as Waybar Setting up screensharing was a little tricky. You'll need dbus installed and enabled as a service, and the wlroots xdg portal. Then inside of your sway config you want to have the line
exec --no-startup-id dbus-update-activation-environment --all
tucked away somewhere (I have it near the end but I don't *think* it matters?) so that it restarts dbus to make that portal work and enable screensharing. Or something Final small detail is if you use the hide_cursor thing in your config (to, for example, hide your cursor when typing) it doesn't play super well with games since it doesn't just hide the cursor but actually turns it off until you start doing mouse input again
So in terms of usage, I've found it really smooth! Obviously no screentearing rocks, and in general I love the manual tiling workflow. Wlroots is probably the place to be in terms of wayland compositors (outside of huge DEs) so it's nice that Sway is built on it
Will the next release of sway come with estrogen
I've been negotiating with the team but they keep saying things like "forcefemming Drew DeVault would have horrific consequences" and then refusing to elaborate
