Papersway – a scrollable window management for Sway/i3wm
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Papersway – a scrollable window management for Sway/i3wm
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#3The demo video here is quite convincing, I'd seen paperwm before but not really understood the idea of it. May add this to my sway setup :)
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#4Niri is my current daily driver. I absolutely love it.
Edit: I realize this isn’t about Niri, but it’s basically Niri on i3.
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#5Cool project!
Feedback: I highly suggest a project rename to something that does not have "sway" in the name. Reading the source it seems like it actully has no dependency, API compatibility, or direct interaction with either Sway, i3, or PaperWM?
Sway and i3 just happen to be the most well-known tiling WMs of the hour. There are a bunch of other tiling WM which seem like they will work just fine with Papersway. The docs make it seem like it should only be expected to work with Sway and i3. The possibility is high that most users will not look beyond the "NAME" section before bouncing if they are not already using either of those two and also already familiar with PaperWM.
Less urgently in the docs, it would be nice to be able to get an rough idea about what the project does and the "pitch" without having the reader research PaperWM first.
Why define it strictly in terms of other projects? Why not be usable with other tiling WMs?
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#6Related projects (from niri’s README):
PaperWM (Gnome) https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM
karousel (KDE) https://github.com/peterfajdiga/karousel
niri (wayland) https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri
hyprscroller (hyprland plugin) https://github.com/dawsers/hyprscroller
hyprslidr (hyprland plugin) https://gitlab.com/magus/hyprslidr
PaperWM.spoon (MacOS) https://github.com/mogenson/PaperWM.spoon
Re: Papersway – a scrollable window management for Sway/i3wm
#7Window management has been stagnant so long. I have mixed feelings about the Paper paradigm, but it's heartening to see some work in the space experimenting with the bedrock UX for operating systems, and hope we can eventually move past the floating windows approach on desktop and clumsy swipe-between-apps approach on mobile.
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#9Window management has been stagnant so long. I have mixed feelings about the Paper paradigm, but it's heartening to see some work in the space experimenting with the bedrock UX for operating systems, and hope we can eventually move past the floating windows approach on desktop and clumsy swipe-between-apps approach on mobile.
Agreed. All I want is to manage OS windows the same way I manage Vim windows where the content and the container are decoupled. Surprised nobody has made this yet.
Re: Papersway – a scrollable window management for Sway/i3wm
#10Cool project! Feedback: I highly suggest a project rename to something that does not have "sway" in the name. Reading the source it seems like it actully has no dependency, API compatibility, or direct interaction with either Sway, i3, or PaperWM? Sway and i3 just happen to be the most well-known tiling WMs of the hour. There are a bunch of other tiling WM which seem like they will work just fine with Papersway. The…
> This is an implementation of PaperWM-like scrollable window management for Sway/i3wm. If you like Sway/i3wm’s commitments to stability, avoiding scope creep etc. but dislike the window management model, papersway might be of interest.
Seems relevant.