Sway 1.0

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Post by ddevault » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 3:21 PM UTC

Sway 1.0
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Re: Sway 1.0

#2

Post by tarruda » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 3:57 PM UTC

For a long time Xorg/i3 user, are there visible improvements when switching to Wayland/sway?

Re: Sway 1.0

#3

Post by symlinkk » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 3:58 PM UTC

Congrats on the release, Drew. I'm going to fire up a Linux distro this week and try this out. Out of curiosity, what distro do you use?

Re: Sway 1.0

#4

Post by ddevault » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 4:00 PM UTC

symlinkk wrote: post #3

Congrats on the release, Drew. I'm going to fire up a Linux distro this week and try this out. Out of curiosity, what distro do you use?

Thanks! I use Alpine Linux.

Re: Sway 1.0

#5

Post by Sir_Cmpwn » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 4:01 PM UTC

tarruda wrote: post #2

For a long time Xorg/i3 user, are there visible improvements when switching to Wayland/sway?

It'll be noticably snappier.

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Differences-from-i3

Re: Sway 1.0

#6

Post by 7e » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 4:01 PM UTC

Are global hotkeys supported?

Re: Sway 1.0

#7

Post by AdmiralAsshat » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 4:02 PM UTC

Are we able to change window position yet? One of the thing keeping me on X is the simple drop-down terminal, which I'm told is impossible on Wayland because Wayland does not allow its applications to control the window position.

Re: Sway 1.0

#8

Post by sergiotapia » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 4:04 PM UTC

The video is great and useful, shows me what it's all about in 2 minutes. Good stuff.

Re: Sway 1.0

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Post by mediocrejoker » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 4:06 PM UTC

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #5

tarruda wrote: post #2

For a long time Xorg/i3 user, are there visible improvements when switching to Wayland/sway?

It'll be noticably snappier. https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Differences-from-i3

Do people experience noticeable lag on i3 on modern hardware?

Re: Sway 1.0

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 4:06 PM UTC

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #7

Are we able to change window position yet? One of the thing keeping me on X is the simple drop-down terminal, which I'm told is impossible on Wayland because Wayland does not allow its applications to control the window position.

I gave a short talk at XDC which shows how sway & wlroots solves this problem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuRXHJu5Kmg

tl;dw: you can't set your position but a drop-down terminal is still in the cards