I setup sway couple days ago from source (with wlroots instead of wlc) and agree with the statement that sway now has the best hidpi support on Linux. I have UHD 15.6 inch laptop monitor and use FullHD 21.5 inch external monitor.
Setting the scaling properly was super easy, and the performance is much better compared to my previous Xorg setup. The only thing missing for me currently is tray icons support.
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#32:( What can I do with my desktop? Replacing my nvidia card is hardly an option but I want Sway.
There might be an option to swap your nvidia card with your integrated GPU through some kernel modesetting scripts if your bios doesn't disable the integrated GPU.
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#33"You can also now do crazy stuff like having multiple mice with multiple cursors, and linking keyboards, mice, drawing tablets, and touchscreens to each other arbitrarily. You can now have your dvorak keyboard for normal use and a second qwerty keyboard for when your coworker comes over for a pair programming session. You can even give your coworker the ability to focus and type into separate windows from what you’re…
"You can now have your dvorak keyboard for normal use and a second qwerty keyboard for when your coworker comes over for a pair programming session" Well over a decade ago, I had multiple keyboards with different layouts hooked up to my linux laptop, and could use both of them at the same time with no problem. I'm not sure why this is supposed to be so novel.
> You can even give your coworker the ability to focus and type into separate windows from what you’re working on.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can use the nouveau driver, which is supported and works well. Or you could sell your card and get an AMD one. If not, there's nothing wrong with sticking to i3+X11 until a more convenient time.
Nouveau is useless for a card like the 1080Ti, you get 10% of the performance and much worse energy efficiency. Yes, I also dislike nvidia but a few years ago AMD was absolutely awful under Linux. Yeah, not much wrong with i3 but I really like what you're doing with Sway. :)
I use nouveau on my 960, and the performance is pretty much the same. 10% seems like a big overstatement.
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#35Great news!! Tired it on arch sometime back and a few missing i3 compatible features made me go back to i3. Will be trying to switch now and see!! Thanks a lot @Sir_Cmpwn!
when using `sway` from community you will get sway running with `wlc` compositor instead of `wlroots`.
`wlc` does not work with dynamic external monitor connection (which was a deal breaker for me, maybe other issues).
`wlroots` solves that.
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#36I've been running this for a couple of hours and it seems really solid so far. Feels great to finally have atomic layout updates and absolutely no tearing.
I hope these questions aren't too off-topic:
- How can I get GTK to stop ignoring my theme? It works with Qt using qtstyleplugins, but not with GTK itself, oddly enough. The theme also works fine when using the x11 backend.
- How can I force floating windows to have title bars? Calling 'swaymsg border normal' manually works, but I can't find a way to set a default. Setting 'default_floating_border normal' doesn't help.
- HiDPI support is claimed to be the best in sway, but Qt appears to ignore 'scale 1' on my HiDPI screen and displays it as 'scale 2'.
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#37I've been running this for a couple of hours and it seems really solid so far. Feels great to finally have atomic layout updates and absolutely no tearing. I hope these questions aren't too off-topic: - How can I get GTK to stop ignoring my theme? It works with Qt using qtstyleplugins, but not with GTK itself, oddly enough. The theme also works fine when using the x11 backend. - How can I force floating windows to ha…
1 and 3 are problems with GTK and Qt respectively, not something I'm too sure of as a sway developer. Qt's Wayland support and HiDPI support both leave a lot to be desired, but I think you can configure it through environment variables. I'm not sure how to address your GTK problem.
As for forcing floating windows to have title bars, you might have encountered a bug. Can you open a ticket?
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#38I've been running this for a couple of hours and it seems really solid so far. Feels great to finally have atomic layout updates and absolutely no tearing. I hope these questions aren't too off-topic: - How can I get GTK to stop ignoring my theme? It works with Qt using qtstyleplugins, but not with GTK itself, oddly enough. The theme also works fine when using the x11 backend. - How can I force floating windows to ha…
qt scaling worked for me with QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1 and QT_FONT_DPI=287.
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#39I've been running this for a couple of hours and it seems really solid so far. Feels great to finally have atomic layout updates and absolutely no tearing. I hope these questions aren't too off-topic: - How can I get GTK to stop ignoring my theme? It works with Qt using qtstyleplugins, but not with GTK itself, oddly enough. The theme also works fine when using the x11 backend. - How can I force floating windows to ha…
1 and 3 are problems with GTK and Qt respectively, not something I'm too sure of as a sway developer. Qt's Wayland support and HiDPI support both leave a lot to be desired, but I think you can configure it through environment variables. I'm not sure how to address your GTK problem. As for forcing floating windows to have title bars, you might have encountered a bug. Can you open a ticket?
Yeah, I figured those might be out of your scope, thanks anyways. I'll open a ticket for the title bar thing in a bit.
Also, thank you for sway and wlroots!
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#40> Other cool features include support for daisy-chained DisplayPort configurations and improved Redshift support.
Wayland can do redshift now? I thought it wasn't possible yet. Guess it's time to move off of Xorg.