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i3-compatible Wayland compositor

106 mentions on Hacker News by 93 people: 15 stories, 91 comments · first 2015-08-16 · latest 2026-03-20

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  1. …able to share individual windows. https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr/issues/10... https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/8170#issuecomment-3962...
    comment by schemar · 2026-03-20 · in Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?
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    Sway is an i3-compatible Wayland compositor
    story by doener · 2025-12-03 · 0 comments
  3. …found that niri is much better at letting hardware go to sleep (which saves 10W on my GPU.) [1]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/7898 etc. [2]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/issues/3864
    comment by nagisa · 2025-10-03 · in Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
  4. …or no hardware for? The entitlement is a bit jarring. Also I think they merged something last year: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/pull/7681
    comment by mariusor · 2025-01-26 · in Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion
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    Sway 1.10 Released
    story by voxadam · 2024-10-30 · 0 comments
  6. ▲ 1
    Sway 1.10 Is Released
    story by fossdd · 2024-10-27 · 0 comments
  7. …supported by Wayland out of the box. It has to be implemented optionally by Wayland servers. See https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/1012 . Also IIRC you still can't copy-paste between VMs on wayland (although that could be outdated by…
    comment by fngjdflmdflg · 2024-06-02 · in Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024
  8. It used to be called `-my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia ` https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/3334d11adc926c0f6d86afc4...
    comment by kaanyalova · 2024-05-20 · in Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for Nvidia Users
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    Sway is an i3-compatible Wayland compositor
    story by doener · 2024-02-29 · 1 comment
  10. ▲ 1
    Sway 1.9 Release
    story by signa11 · 2024-02-26 · 0 comments
  11. ▲ 5
    Sway 1.9
    story by pimeys · 2024-02-24 · 5 comments
  12. …Firefox and GTK handling input events; some Wayland compositors have workarounds but others do not. https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/7645 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1743144 Firefox is my preferred browser and I hope…
    comment by TimeBearingDown · 2023-12-05 · in Firefox on the brink?
  13. …are actual issues with some competitors which are not Wayland architecture issues. For example https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/4763
    comment by viraptor · 2023-09-24 · in Platform that enables Windows driver development in Rust
  14. …Wayland space had been using the mesa library except nvidia with their own proprietary libgl. [0]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/490#issuecomment-47174...
    comment by Bu9818 · 2023-09-18 · in So let’s talk about this Wayland thing
  15. Sway is fast, minimal, and flexible. Their recommended tools/addons are worth a look: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Useful-add-ons-for-sway From that list I use greetd + tuigreet as my login manager, sway-launcher-desktop for…
    comment by 0x38B · 2023-09-10 · in On Desktop GUI Minimalism
  16. …random app can't lock the screen) https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/m... https://github.com/swaywm/sway/pull/7648 https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/pull/4920
    comment by Bu9818 · 2023-09-01 · in The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant
  17. I don't think sway plans to support xmodmap, but it does support custom XKB layouts. https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/4250
    comment by CameronNemo · 2023-08-11 · in The many issues plaguing Nix
  18. …by default, so even if it didn't hard crash it would never show anything besides a blank screen. https://github.com/swaywm/sway/commit/b48cb6b0ec1320ad25fd2c...
    comment by ElectricalUnion · 2023-08-08 · in ChimeraOS: Instantly turn any PC into a gaming console
  19. …I don't think anyone has. You may note here is the default desktop file as provided by the project. https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/master/sway.desktop This is what everyone is using and it is exactly as broken by default as I claimed.
    comment by michaelmrose · 2023-08-02 · in Emacs is my new window manager
  20. KDE, wlroots's hardware cursor are broken right now https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452117 https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/4763 sad to see another linux api design failure
    comment by lulitao1997 · 2023-07-09 · in Wayland is pretty good
  21. …v2: https://github.com/ibus/ibus/issues/2182 The list of recommended IMEs on Sway are all WIP: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Useful-add-ons-for-sway#... There is even v3. Kitty refused to implement v3 because v3 appeared even more…
    comment by hkmaxpro · 2023-05-26 · in The reality of Wayland input methods in 2022 (2022)
  22. …windows under the Sway Wayland compositor. It does detect switching tabs within the same window. https://github.com/swaywm/sway
    comment by yencabulator · 2022-12-15 · in Lesser-known JavaScript APIs
  23. …in a separate repo, as advertised via the “Clone this wiki locally” sidebar link: e.g. the wiki at https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki can be cloned from https://github.com/swaywm/sway.wiki . (Of course, people have also made a variety of…
    comment by mananaysiempre · 2022-11-28 · in Git Notes
  24. …to the display. In wayland that's called direct scanout. But yeah, for non-fullscreen it helps. See https://github.com/swaywm/sway/pull/5063
    comment by the8472 · 2022-11-21 · in Computer Latency: 1977-2017
  25. …https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pq/color-and-hdr Here is parallel work on this in Sway: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/1486 And parallel work in KDE: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439135 I can't find any reference to color…
    comment by trop · 2022-10-11 · in Blender: Wayland Support on Linux
  26. …[4]: https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/blob/package... [5]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/100
    comment by argulane · 2022-09-19 · in An X11 apologist tries Wayland
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    Remove –my-next-GPU-wont-be-Nvidia
    story by yewenjie · 2022-07-29 · 0 comments
  28. …in glyphs being aligned with actual pixel boundaries, reducing the need for antialias blurring. [1] https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/445bc2a943d905a0e5b1dc60...
    comment by maxdamantus · 2022-07-08 · in Are We Wayland Yet?
  29. …sentence, thanks for the correction. Also, that legendary flag was removed in a recent commit: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/commit/b48cb6b0ec1320ad25fd2c...
    comment by wheelerof4te · 2022-05-30 · in Bleh
  30. Sway has had support for both of those for years. Tray: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/0.14.0 Screenshot: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/0.10
    comment by craftkiller · 2022-01-31 · in Xorg update adds touchpad gestures and variable refresh support (2021)
  31. …but Flameshot works as well (for example). Edit: you should have a look at the wiki: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Useful-add-ons-for-sway
    comment by boudin · 2022-01-31 · in Xorg update adds touchpad gestures and variable refresh support (2021)
  32. …sway which removes many bottlenecks (or at least haven’t noticed any), you could give it a try https://github.com/swaywm/sway
    comment by nicce · 2021-12-15 · in Gaming on Wayland
  33. …I do if you don't decide to include critical release of a package that was out there for 6 months? https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases
    comment by KptMarchewa · 2021-10-14 · in Ubuntu 21.10
  34. …Funny you say that considering Firefox goes haywire if you use it on Sway with fractional scaling. https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/6432 https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/6426 https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/6147 Other Qt…
    comment by ayushnix · 2021-09-01 · in System76 Pangolin Linux-first laptop with AMD internals now in stock
  35. Oh, I'm sorry. I've totally wrong for a while then. Yes, written in C, 97.5% C. https://github.com/swaywm/sway
    comment by toastal · 2021-06-24 · in Future of Cinnamon in Debian
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    --my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia
    story by ibraheemdev · 2021-05-20 · 0 comments
  37. …Guide' [1] from the Sway wiki lists some dmenu replacements (bemenu, fuzzel, gmenu, wldash) [1] https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/i3-Migration-Guide
    comment by ubavic · 2021-03-31 · in OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support
  38. …with sway and Jetbrains back in November, but I fixed those by running them on the latest JDK: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/3007#issuecomment-7245... Granted that yes, probably it's not Wayland native, but using HiDPI in my case…
    comment by denysvitali · 2021-03-13 · in Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems
  39. https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Differences-from-i3 and so thoroughly documented! /s
    comment by hprotagonist · 2021-02-02 · in I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit
  40. …exactly same way. The Sway devs maintain a list of common helper applications that work with Sway: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/i3-Migration-Guide
    comment by majewsky · 2021-02-02 · in Wayland is not ready as a 1:1 compatible Xorg replacement just yet
  41. …second screen (there are some that are browser-based) Unfortunately it is somewhat undocumented: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/5553 but you can find some info on the net: https://www.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/k1zl41/thank_you_de.…
    comment by MayeulC · 2021-01-24 · in Deskreen – Turn any device with a web browser to a second computer screen
  42. Clearly: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/master/LICENSE
    comment by mariusor · 2021-01-19 · in Elasticsearch does not belong to Elastic
  43. …just end up giving the a malicious user access to the session. > I don't think this is worth it https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/2031#issuecomment-3920...
    comment by dmm · 2021-01-17 · in Jwz: I told you so, 2021 edition
  44. …or so, a lot of 1:1 replacements for those "do one thing and do it well" X11 tools have appeared: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/i3-Migration-Guide#commo...
    comment by majewsky · 2021-01-13 · in Software That Sucks Less
  45. …The alternative for me was to migrate to sway[1] to have a similar environment in wayland. [1] - https://github.com/swaywm/sway/
    comment by makepanic · 2020-12-16 · in I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager
  46. > Power user functionality like copy paste on the other hand? https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/4007 might want to pray before using that. Come on. Congratulations, you've found the only opened bug report about clipboard on…
    comment by emersion · 2020-10-29 · in On Abandoning the X Server
  47. …example has finely grained input latency tweaks built in while being Wayland compliant [1]. [1]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.4
    comment by DCKing · 2020-10-28 · in On Abandoning the X Server
  48. …mouse and keyboard? No? Then great. Power user functionality like copy paste on the other hand? https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/4007 might want to pray before using that.
    comment by josefx · 2020-10-28 · in On Abandoning the X Server
  49. I can find Wayland equivalents for my compositor for all of these tools: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/i3-Migration-Guide#commo...
    comment by emersion · 2020-10-28 · in On Abandoning the X Server
  50. …that most Xwayland-based programs which tries to do screen-sharing fails spectacularly though. [1] https://github.com/swaywm/sway
    comment by josteink · 2020-10-27 · in The X.Org Server Is Abandonware?