Sway January 2021

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redshift wayland support
by Dominique Martinet 15 Mar '21

15 Mar '21

Hi all. I've joined the list at Dan's suggestion, as I will be maintaining waypipe[1] now, and admittedly it could be useful for sway users, so why not. [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe Looking at the SIG page[2] there is a wishlist item for "redshift with wayland support", and as a big user myself I would be all for it. [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Sway The problem is that upstream[3] has not been very active for a while - merged one PR in 2019, but that aside pretty much nothing since 2018. Frankly major DEs (gnome, KDE) incorporate the feature natively so users of redshift on wayland will basically only ever be wlroots-based compositors, so we shouldn't expect to get much help from anywhere on this... I imagine the dev uses gnome as he wrote the gnome-clock location helper redshift-gtk service files, so he's made the switch and hasn't looked back much. [3] https://github.com/jonls/redshift The wayland support issue[4] suggests arch uses minus7's wayland branch[5] but that would appear to still be AUR and they are in the same situation as us (some coprs have it alongside older versions of sway but nothing official). I would suggest the way forward would be to try to discuss with jonls and minus7 if an official fork could start somewhere; either minus7 tree if he is willing to do it or I suppose I could (I also have vested interest, I am also using the stdin remote control patches discussed on this issue[6], so "just" wayland wouldn't be enough for me, and whoever takes over would need to be willing to deal with at least accepting PRs :)) [4] https://github.com/jonls/redshift/issues/55 [5] https://github.com/minus7/redshift/tree/wayland [6] https://github.com/jonls/redshift/issues/690 So, what do you folks think? Worth a shot? Cheers, -- Dominique

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systemd integration repository
by Jan Staněk 14 Feb '21

14 Feb '21

Hi all, the mention on systemd integration in the recent Aleksei's PR [1] and the related discussion in sway PR [2] got me thinking. [1]: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/sway/pull-request/11 [2]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/pull/5622#issuecomment-740978176 TL;DR: What about starting a semi-independent sway-systemd integration project? Long version: I get why emersion does not want any init system/display manager/whatever integrations added to sway itself – it's more of a maintenance burden, and it can also be taken as "endorsement" of any given system(s). On the other hand, leaving the integration instructions on wiki page and telling distribution packagers to basically implement any integration "downstream" does not sit well with me. You would have to extract the snippets from wiki page for each distro separately, then keep an eye on any changes, etc. So, I got the idea of starting "unofficial" `sway-systemd` project – basically extracting the stuff from sway wiki and keeping it in git, allowing maintainers of other distro packages to pool the efforts. Unfortunately, I'm not currently planning on actually *using* the systemd integration in the near future, so I'm probably not the best person to push that idea further – at least not on my own. The question is: does this idea is something that appeals to other people here, and if so, do we want to start the ball rolling? Have a nice day! -- Jan Staněk Software Engineer, Red Hat jstanek(a)redhat.com irc: jstanek

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Wanted to test Sway
by FUNG Chi Chuen Sampson 26 Jan '21

26 Jan '21

I am 100% new to Sway (or i3). This is my start: https://fedoramagazine.org/setting-up-the-sway-window-manager-on-fedora/ After copy default config cp /etc/sway/config ~/.config/sway/ I can enter sway by : - at shell, run sway directly - at GDM, choose sway After entering sway: 1. Super-Shift-C works to reload config 2. Super-D will give me a search in the top bar 3. From search, I can run gnome-terminal, termite, firefox, etc. - gnome-terminal mouse copy and paste Question: 1. How can I "exit sway / reboot" ? Now I am doing a kill in shell after switch tty console. 2. How can I learn more about Fedora's default sway config ? Thanks a lot!

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