Sway August 2020

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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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sway module updated to 1.5
by Aleksei Bavshin 07 Aug '20

07 Aug '20

Hi all, It took a while, but with 4th build attempt we finally have update for f32 sway module. Sorry if you've seen some excess noise from fedmsg. If anyone else here (besides me) is using it, please test and give your feedback: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-MODULAR-2020-284df052dc Just reminding that f31 is out of luck this time due to old `wayland` package. -- A moment of advertisement: as likely most of the SIG, I have copr repo with extra packages[1]. Some of those might be of interest for fellow SIG members: - `gammastep` - maintained fork of redshift with wlroots wlr-gamma-control support. - `rofi-wayland` - non-upstreamable fork of `rofi` that uses wlr-layer-shell for native wayland rendering. It addresses all of the focus issues I had with rofi due to its X11 nature and keeps being notably faster than `wofi`. - `greetd` - lightweight login manager - is an interesting project which I'm now using daily with `greetd-tuigreet` text mode greeter. Feel free to try it and let me know if it's worth proceeding with including any of those into Fedora. I certainly don't want to deal with a headache of rust packaging if I'm the only user of greetd :) [1] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/alebastr/sway-extras/ -- With best regards, Aleksei Bavshin

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