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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. …hidpi displays based on a heuristic from EDID info and chooses an appropriate scale factor . https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/1800 8, now 9, comments in a subthread because no one could bother to validate assumptions or do a Google…
    comment by getfactsright · 2020-10-25 · in The X.Org Server Is Abandonware?
  2. …nearly every other compositor is based on Sway's wlroots, and should be compatible with Sway. [1]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki
    comment by jabirali · 2020-08-25 · in Some Ugly Code Can Get Nvidia's Linux Driver Working with Accelerated XWayland
  3. ▲ 2
    Sway 1.5
    story by nimar · 2020-07-16 · 0 comments
  4. …about a blurry chrome was fixed a while ago[0]. Maybe it's caused by something else... [0] https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/1481#issuecomment-6404...
    comment by mijoharas · 2020-06-08 · in Running Linux on My MacBook
  5. …crash dwl. [1]: https://github.com/emersion/grim [2]: https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder [3]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Running-programs-nativel...
    comment by Ordoviz · 2020-06-02 · in Dwl: Dwm-like Wayland compositor based on wlroots
  6. …blessing and a curse here. [0] https://www.swalladge.net/archives/2019/10/14/are-we-wayland... [1] https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/3115 [2] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397834#c1
    comment by rvz · 2020-05-06 · in WinUI – The modern native UI platform of Windows
  7. > No, but having discussions somewhere completely unlinked to your open source repository https://github.com/swaywm/sway#sway > Join the IRC channel (#sway on irc.freenode.net). This is a clickable link. >without a searchable archive and…
    comment by ddevault · 2020-05-01 · in The Sourcehut Project Hub
  8. …would give away my identity, but this is one issue I ran into while moving from i3 to sway: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/1005#issuecomment-3315... where the comment that closes the issue just says "we'll never implement this,…
    comment by fluffything · 2020-05-01 · in The Sourcehut Project Hub
  9. …ydotool? https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool Also, do you know about the "i3 Migration guide"? https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/i3-Migration-Guide
    comment by servilio · 2020-03-03 · in Firefox 75 on Wayland now to have full WebGL, working VA-API acceleration
  10. …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?
  11. 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
  12. …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?
  13. …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
  14. …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
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    Sway 1.4
    story by lukastyrychtr · 2020-01-22 · 0 comments
  16. …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?
  17. …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?
  18. …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?
  19. …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
  20. 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)
  21. 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
  22. …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
  23. 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
  24. …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
  25. ▲ 5
    Sway 1.0
    story by tosh · 2019-03-18 · 0 comments
  26. https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki
    comment by ddevault · 2019-03-11 · in Sway 1.0
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/3652
    comment by Sir_Cmpwn · 2019-02-11 · in Wayland misconceptions debunked
  31. …"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
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    Sway: i3-compatible Wayland compositor – 1.0-beta.1 released
    story by manukall · 2018-10-25 · 76 comments
  33. …[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)
  34. 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
  35. ▲ 3
    Sway 1.0-alpha.1 released
    story by poiuz · 2018-04-08 · 1 comment
  36. …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
  37. …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
  38. 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
  39. …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
  40. …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
  41. 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
  42. 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
  43. …(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)
  44. …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?
  45. 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
  46. > 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)
  47. https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway ?
    comment by justinsaccount · 2016-12-16 · in Fedora 25: With Wayland, Linux has never been easier (or more handsome)
  48. …"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)
  49. > 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)
  50. 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)