swaywm/sway on Hacker News

…a surprise to be met with a blank screen after installation. 1. https://i.imgur.com/TwiH6ks.png 2. https://github.com/swaywm/sway 3. https://youtu.be/ycMiMDHopNc

comment by imjasonmiller · 2020-02-12 · in Ask HN: What are your windows aesthetics?

Well, there's this PR... https://github.com/swaywm/sway/pull/4255 :) > [...] However, one may simply wish to consume the fullscreen UI, not actually fullscreen the application [...] > This PR implements a fullscreen inhibition feature in…

comment by MayeulC · 2020-02-09 · in Building Firefox's Picture-in-Picture Support

…and I'm very responsive on issues and pull requests. Another great community is sway < https://github.com/swaywm/sway/> and i3 < https://github.com/i3/i3> .

comment by acrisci · 2020-01-29 · in Ask HN: How to begin contributing to open source?

…1.4 (wayland window manager), just released, has this in the changelog: Support for VNC via wayvnc. https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases Wayland/wl-roots compatible screen-recorder: https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder

comment by tjoff · 2020-01-29 · in The sad state of screen sharing on desktop Linux

…compatible Wayland successor called Sway [2]. [1] https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle [2] https://github.com/swaywm/sway

comment by Fnoord · 2020-01-25 · in Show HN: Phoenix – a macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript

…and probably look for something different in the future. The examples that were easy to find again; https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/1207#issuecomment-2984... https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/829#issuecomment-32683...

comment by d0ugal · 2019-11-25 · in Are We Wayland Yet?

…can help it and if I sometimes have to alternate between i3 and sway then that won't do for me. [0] https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki#nvidia-users [1] https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/3334d11adc926c0f6d86afc4...

comment by Svenstaro · 2019-11-25 · in Are We Wayland Yet?

…been very nice to use all around--snappy, no major issues even with multiple monitors, etc. [0]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway

comment by colatkinson · 2019-11-25 · in Are We Wayland Yet?

…posix compliance, it is not that different from a bash script with bashisms in that regard. [0] https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/1269#issuecomment-4316... [1] https://git.sr.ht/%7Esircmpwn/dotfiles/tree/master/bin/wallp...

comment by L0stLink · 2019-10-26 · in Fish: A command line shell for the 90s

No problem. There's some issues with it right now, but feel free to give it some testing at https://github.com/swaywm/sway/pull/4570 . It has been an interesting exercise so far, and frankly a quite pleasant one. Rather than autotools or…

comment by jchw · 2019-09-24 · in Understanding the working of X11 from the ground up (2017)

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/9670ccee683ab985e89eb043...

comment by rrss · 2019-07-07 · in The death watch for the X Window System has probably started

…with screen capture on sway, but I can definitely confirm that grim works for screenshots. [0] https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki#taking-screenshots

comment by sq_ · 2019-07-07 · in The death watch for the X Window System has probably started

Screenshots and recordings work fine with Sway and GNOME. I don’t know about other compositors. See https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki#taking-screenshots

comment by snazz · 2019-07-07 · in The death watch for the X Window System has probably started

…been thinking about this for a few years at least (happy i3wm user). I am looking at moving to Sway https://github.com/swaywm/sway (drop in replacement) at some point as it seems the development is really healthy. sircmpwn (Drew DeVault)…

comment by dngray · 2019-07-07 · in Debian 10 “Buster” Released

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki

comment by ddevault · 2019-03-11 · in Sway 1.0

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

comment by Sir_Cmpwn · 2019-03-11 · in Sway 1.0

Sway is very close to a 1.0 release, 1.0-rc4 was just released: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/1735 It is and has been quite stable as a regular user on the sway-git version for awhile, but I can't comment on what it's like for…

comment by matt-snider · 2019-02-26 · in Linux Desktop Setup

I believe that's been possible since 1.0-alpha.1 : https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/1735

comment by nathcd · 2019-02-26 · in Linux Desktop Setup

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/3652

comment by Sir_Cmpwn · 2019-02-11 · in Wayland misconceptions debunked

…"If the nvidia module is loaded on your system, you are not permitted to file bugs of any sort" ( https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/3039 ). From this, I can only infer that your attitude is to childishly exclude a large segment of…

comment by coffeecat · 2019-02-11 · in Wayland misconceptions debunked

…[2] https://github.com/minus7/redshift/tree/wayland [3] https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots [4] https://github.com/swaywm/sway

comment by minus7 · 2018-08-11 · in Redshift – A better flux program for Linux (2014)

He is the main developer on the Linux Window Manager I use https://github.com/swaywm/sway

comment by jtlisi · 2018-04-19 · in Viability of unpopular programming languages

…Hacker News isn't the right place for your bug report, though, please file a GitHub issue here: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/new

comment by Sir_Cmpwn · 2017-10-20 · in The future of Wayland, and Sway's role in it

…alacritty that lead to the current incompatibility. https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/97 https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/1390 https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/1054 From what I gather, alacritty and its window system…

comment by jpgrayson · 2017-10-19 · in The future of Wayland, and Sway's role in it

Fear not, friend. There's a very active port of i3 to wayland: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway I haven't personally tried it, but I have heard about it a few times, so I assume it's fairly good. This is the list of supported features, if…

comment by farresito · 2017-07-02 · in Way Cooler tiling window manager

…a while as my daily driver and it works great. Another one I want to check out soon is Way Cooler. https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway https://github.com/way-cooler/way-cooler

comment by KitDuncan · 2017-06-13 · in An introduction to Wayland

…nice to see some more practical examples. For those unaware, SirCmpwn is responsible for sway - https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway - which aims to be an i3 compatible compositor for Wayland. In my experience it's not production ready yet,…

comment by lol768 · 2017-06-11 · in An introduction to Wayland

If I understand correctly, they've implemented a new wayland protocol (extension?) https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/blob/master/protocols/gamma...

comment by colemickens · 2017-03-31 · in Night Shift compared to f.lux

Recent versions of Sway, the i3-compatible Wayland compositor, work with a patched Redshift: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/releases/tag/0.12

comment by abrowne · 2017-03-22 · in Gnome 3.24 (with Night Light) Released

…(i3): sway. [2] I'll miss hacking the good hack. [1]: https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm [2]: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway

comment by lvh · 2017-03-21 · in The Antidesktop (2002)

…Sway instead. It feels so much like i3 that I often forget it's not i3. Hidpi works pretty well: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/issues/797 . I use this on a Dell Precision with the 4k display.

comment by sevensor · 2017-02-23 · in Do we really need swap on modern systems?

There's a bounty for that feature: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/issues/986 Why don't you work on it?

comment by Sir_Cmpwn · 2017-01-13 · in StumpWM 1.0 Released

> good tiling window manager SirCmpwn is porting i3: http://swaywm.org/ https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway

comment by lima · 2016-12-16 · in Fedora 25: With Wayland, Linux has never been easier (or more handsome)

https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway ?

comment by justinsaccount · 2016-12-16 · in Fedora 25: With Wayland, Linux has never been easier (or more handsome)

…"this month" - tell us you're interested and we'll find something for you to work on. - - - Sway ( https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway ) - An i3-compatible Wayland compositor (MIT license) This month: we're shipping Sway 0.10, but still…

comment by Sir_Cmpwn · 2016-10-03 · in Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (October 2016)

> and, uh, that i3-like compositor, I forgot its name. The i3-like compositor is called sway: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/ As an i3 user, I'm pretty happy to see it so far along in its development. ---Alex Edit: fixed link

comment by Alexqw85 · 2016-09-19 · in The Linux graphics stack from X to Wayland (2011)

sway is the i3-like: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway

comment by johnny22 · 2016-09-19 · in The Linux graphics stack from X to Wayland (2011)

Since v0.9, sway has mouse support for swaybar (check out the changelog: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/releases/tag/0.9 ).

comment by brnl · 2016-08-14 · in Way Cooler: A tiling window manager for Wayland written in Rust

Also check out sway, i3 compatible window manager for Wayland: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway

comment by shadeless · 2016-08-13 · in Way Cooler: A tiling window manager for Wayland written in Rust

Yes, an i3 inspired one: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway

comment by pyotrgalois · 2016-04-19 · in StumpWM – Tiling Window Manager in Common Lisp

I'm tracking this i3/Wayland fork which seems to be pretty active too: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway

comment by tobik · 2016-01-29 · in NayuOS – Chromebooks without Google