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Do you daily drive Wayland, if so since when, if not when will you? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by headroom@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I've been on Wayland for the past two years exclusively (Nvidia).

I thought it was okay for the most part but then I had to switch to an X session recently. The experience felt about the same. Out of curiosity, I played a couple of games and realized they worked much better. Steam doesn't go nuts either.

Made me think maybe people aren't actually adopting it that aggressively despite the constant coverage in the community. And that maybe I should just go back.

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[–] Samueru@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (9 children)

I will daily drive wayland once sway fixes all their compatibility bugs with i3 and once polybar works on wayland as well.

[–] schaeferpp@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm using sway for approx. 2 years now and am very happy with it as drop in replacement for i3. What bugs are you referring to?

For bars, there are swaybar and waybar that run very smoothly. It's not 100 % polybar but with waybar you can get kind of close.

[–] Samueru@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/8002

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/8001

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/8000

Also this issue which affects xfce apps in wayland:

https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/1304

I also need to find a way to do "window devour" in sway.

I also tried Hyprland and it was a total nope for me, I wasted my time reading the wiki pinning workspaces to certain monitors only for hyprland to tell me that shit was deprecated. I also found that I can't move a floating window between displays in hyprland, as the move left/right commands move the floating window to the left or right of the display and don't actually move it left or right, that means the window gets stuck in the left or right side of the display when trying to move it into the next.

edit: And my polybar is a long config for multiple displays as well that has several features I worked on and I really don't wanna bother migrating to another bar:

https://imgur.com/2GXp2L6.png

I have indicators of cpu usage (which when click change the cpu scheduler), mem, gpu, etc, It also prints the names of the windows in the scratchpad which is the Xfce4-terminal Mate-calc in this case, the current workspace, the window class name and instance of the window with focus, the currently playing music track with playerctl, the volume in decibels, the current network speed, etc.

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