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master branch of wlroots + sway (I update nearly ever hour). Sway is the most exciting thing going on right now. Sway is really fast, I don't think the slownes

master branch of wlroots + sway (I update nearly ever hour). Sway is the most exciting thing going on right now. Sway is really fast, I don't think the slowness is a problem with sway. I am wondering if my x220's Intel card is just too slow. I will try shortly on a much faster system.

jitl 8y ago
Are you on Arch? I’ve been struggling to build sway 1.0-beta.1 on Ubuntu 18.04 - need to build libwayland 1.16 but then all transitive deps on Wayland are sad.
- nezirus 8y ago
  sway beta works great on Arch, maybe you can look up build scripts for sway-git and wlroots-git on aur.archlinux.org, that should probably help with dependency list and building the whole thing.
- pimeys 8y ago
  I'm running Ubuntu 18.10 and basically only needed to install sway, wlroots and json-c from source. Additionally Ubuntu's system version of meson is too old, but you get the latest with pip.
colemickens 8y ago
I am also running the very latest Sway and have no issues with other Wayland applications. I am seeing the same slowness you describe, as I'd been seeing with the Flatpak nightly Wayland builds. It's also still not respecting my Caps Lock. I'm waiting to hear from someone running it under GNOME/Wayland before filing bugs, though.
craftyguy 8y ago
Nice, and I agree! That's sad though, because it means my x230 probably won't fare any better. Are you using modesetting or the SNA (xf86-video-intel) driver? edit: don't mind me, it uses modesetting.
- mbrumlow 8y ago
  I am not sure how drivers work with wayland, it probably is not the xf86-video-intel though, as this is wayland. But I think it will be fine once they flush some things out. Everything in wayland is smooth and fast except this. And this was just enabled. Firefox in general even on Xwayland is super fast on this old system too. It probably just a matter of time until it is all smooth again.
  - craftyguy 8y ago
    Ah you're right, wayland uses modesetting, what was I thinking. I should have known as I was typing out the typical SNA driver name..
jadbox 8y ago
If only wayland worked with NVIDIA drivers, but I've heard that there's some progress happening.

jitl 8y ago

Are you on Arch? I’ve been struggling to build sway 1.0-beta.1 on Ubuntu 18.04 - need to build libwayland 1.16 but then all transitive deps on Wayland are sad.

nezirus 8y ago
sway beta works great on Arch, maybe you can look up build scripts for sway-git and wlroots-git on aur.archlinux.org, that should probably help with dependency list and building the whole thing.
pimeys 8y ago
I'm running Ubuntu 18.10 and basically only needed to install sway, wlroots and json-c from source. Additionally Ubuntu's system version of meson is too old, but you get the latest with pip.

colemickens 8y ago

I am also running the very latest Sway and have no issues with other Wayland applications. I am seeing the same slowness you describe, as I'd been seeing with the Flatpak nightly Wayland builds. It's also still not respecting my Caps Lock. I'm waiting to hear from someone running it under GNOME/Wayland before filing bugs, though.

craftyguy 8y ago

Nice, and I agree! That's sad though, because it means my x230 probably won't fare any better. Are you using modesetting or the SNA (xf86-video-intel) driver? edit: don't mind me, it uses modesetting.

mbrumlow 8y ago
I am not sure how drivers work with wayland, it probably is not the xf86-video-intel though, as this is wayland. But I think it will be fine once they flush some things out. Everything in wayland is smooth and fast except this. And this was just enabled. Firefox in general even on Xwayland is super fast on this old system too. It probably just a matter of time until it is all smooth again.
- craftyguy 8y ago
  Ah you're right, wayland uses modesetting, what was I thinking. I should have known as I was typing out the typical SNA driver name..

jadbox 8y ago

If only wayland worked with NVIDIA drivers, but I've heard that there's some progress happening.