sway - an i3-compatible WM for Wayland

ids1024 · 2016-01-16 21:36:52

mke21 wrote:

Looks great and very familiar for this i3wm user. I installed from the aur and it worked.
Some problems I got: I don't see borders, I've got a 1 px border in my own I3 setting but don't see it in sway. Not a real dealbraker bit nevertheless. Seccond, My Also, pulldown menu's in X programs don't seem towallpaper did not appear. work. This renders the current version useless for daily use indeed sadly. Still, I really love it and I'm looking forward to use it more when it is more mature. Keep up the good work!

Borders aren't implemented yet: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/issues/2

SirCmpwn · 2016-01-17 15:05:45

Borders are unimplemented. What kind of pulldown menus? Like right click? Or the menu bar at the top of windows? Are you sure they're running on xwayland? GTK apps run on the Wayland backend and use subsurfaces for menus, which are unimplemented (see https://github.com/Cloudef/wlc/issues/22).

ninjaaron · 2016-01-29 00:26:34

This is great. Is there any way to have support for keyboard layout switching? I use at least two non-latin keyboard layouts on a daily basis in addition to two variations of the US keyboard, and switching between them dynamically is important to my workflow.

I know that's weird, but that's my use case (though I guess people who come from a language with a non-latin alphabet need to go back and forth quickly also when they are on the computer)

SirCmpwn · 2016-01-29 00:27:51

ninjaaron wrote:

This is great. Is there any way to have support for keyboard layout switching? I use at least two non-latin keyboard layouts on a daily basis in addition to two variations of the US keyboard, and switching between them dynamically is important to my workflow.
I know that's weird, but that's my use case (though I guess people who come from a language with a non-latin alphabet need to go back and forth quickly also when they are on the computer)

You can't switch on the fly, but you can specify a layout when you start sway.

ninjaaron · 2016-01-29 02:37:32

SirCmpwn wrote:

You can't switch on the fly, but you can specify a layout when you start sway.

Yeah, I saw that. Unfortunately, this is not a solution for my use-case, but I do look forward to watching the progress of this project closely. I'm currently an i3 user, and I'm very interested in getting on to Wayland one of these days. Thanks for all your hard work!

Awebb · 2016-01-29 11:41:49

What? You're saying there is no setxkbmap equivalent for Wayland? Another "the client's job" thing? Oh my...

ninjaaron · 2016-01-30 22:27:21

I'm sure there will eventually be something like setxkbmap for Wayland. It still uses libxkbcommon on the backend for handling keyboard input. My guess is simply that nobody has implemented a similar tool for Wayland yet. I believe there is layout switching in Gnome under Wayland (I have used it, but it's been a while...)

but yeah; I don't really see why this should be a window managers job. Someone just needs to write setxkbmap for wayland (or patch the existing setxkbmap). I'm not that person, since I don't know C, but I'm sure it will happen eventually.

SirCmpwn · 2016-03-20 21:41:10

Been a while since the last update, so here I am for another.

New default wallpaper and a logo to go with it
New man pages: swaylock(1), sway-bar(5), sway-input(5) plus improvements to existing man pages
swaylock works (but is still incomplete)
Input devices are now configurable (man sway-input)
More i3 features have been implemented for the IPC interface
swaybar fleshed out, most of i3's bar features+configuration are implemented
Key handling tweaked to be more i3-like in niche cases
i3-gaps "smart_gaps" feature implemented
Performance improvements
Dozens of bugs fixed
etc

I'll be doing another "state of sway" post next month (I plan on doing them three times a year), but here's a taste of what we've been up to.

andya · 2016-03-21 18:40:26

Beautiful! Thank’you for the hard work so far

SirCmpwn · 2016-03-25 00:08:08

Roadmap to Sway 1.0: http://swaywm.org/roadmap

SirCmpwn · 2016-04-16 15:23:09

Sway 0.5 is now available in community.

SirCmpwn · 2016-04-29 14:25:38

Sway 0.6 released and now available in community. Release notes: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/releases/tag/0.6

jugs · 2016-05-02 16:41:45

Is there a sway specific way to control brightness? I assume we shouldn't use using xbacklight?

SirCmpwn · 2016-05-02 17:05:57

Use /sys/class/backlight/.

aouelete · 2016-05-02 17:17:12

I've been using light from the AUR for a while now, and it works perfectly (very similar to xbacklight).

teateawhy · 2016-05-18 23:23:04

Hi, thanks for this. Is it possible to auto-hide the statusbar in sway with "mode hide" ?

SirCmpwn · 2016-05-22 19:12:48

Sway 0.7 released: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/releases/tag/0.7

stozi · 2016-08-02 11:51:02

How to disable Qt window decorations?

SirCmpwn · 2016-08-02 18:59:12

Sway 0.9 released, plus the state of sway 1 year in:

https://drewdevault.com/2016/08/02/Sway … retro.html

SirCmpwn · 2016-10-25 23:00:48

sway 0.10: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/releases/tag/0.10

aplund · 2017-02-06 23:21:39

This is slightly off topic, but for people who use this WM, what terminal emulator do you use? Is it a wayland native one, or run through xwayland? The freedesktop wlterm seems to be a dead project.

Stebalien · 2017-02-07 23:51:08

aplund wrote:

This is slightly off topic, but for people who use this WM, what terminal emulator do you use? Is it a wayland native one, or run through xwayland? The freedesktop wlterm seems to be a dead project.

Termite works well but you'll have to either patch GTK or termite to get rid of the client side titlebar.

once · 2018-08-24 04:15:10

sorry for old thread,

wayland/sway mouse cursor lag after start apps like urxvt.
although they say fixed in wlc.
https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/967

once · 2018-08-25 07:24:45

once wrote:

sorry for old thread,
wayland/sway mouse cursor lag after start apps like urxvt.
although they say fixed in wlc.
https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/967

ok, no one reply so switch to sway-wlroots-git.
but can not launch form TTY or SDDM, nothing like into air.
not yet, sway launch from weston, now i have 2 WM running under wayland.

ps. mouse issue solved.

once · 2019-01-12 07:42:15

using sway-git, everything fine.
but QT apps no window decorations, GTK does e.g. chromium.
had export QT_QPA_PLATFROM=wayland and qt5-wayland installed.

Last edited by once (2019-01-12 07:43:02)

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