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> And since you like i3, might want to try Sway – HiDPI is much better supported on Wayland ;) Seconding this. Long time Windows, Linux AND i3 user. When I (

> And since you like i3, might want to try Sway – HiDPI is much better supported on Wayland ;) Seconding this. Long time Windows, Linux AND i3 user. When I (for the Nth time) tried Sway recently, I was blown away by the multi-display support and how well it handled DPI-differences between those. It was without a doubt the best HiDPI experience I’ve had on any OS so far. If you’ve tried Sway in the past and given up on it (like I did), for lack of maturity or whatever, do give it a spin now. IMO it’s finally ready. It’s finally here.

UI_at_80x24 7y ago
I've gone from i3 -> sway -> i3. Maybe it has gotten better since I last used it; but generally I disliked it. There are 3 distinct issues I've had (one of which I believe was a Wayland-related problem). (1) I dislike how you can resize a window horizontal & vertical at the same time. Grab a corner, and adjust. I distinctly think that this is a feature and not a bug, I just don't like it. I vastly prefer i3's method of 'Adjust vertical' OR 'Adjust Horizontal' depending on where your mouse is. (2) Window-title bar. The size of the font/title bar dynamically changing. Lets say I have firefox open with 3 xterm windows in a even 2x2 matrix. I might have 10 Tabs in Firefox open. As I cycle through the firefox tabs the height of the title-bar changes to reflect the website name. With some sites the font size and/or style changes (from default) too. This causes the titlebar size to change by 1-2 pixels. That causes a screen refresh/redraw and my 2x2 window matrix is no longer 'aligned'. The lack of alignment doesn't bother me, but the 'flicker' it causes does. (3) Wayland specific: screenshots. I need to be able to take screenshots for parts of my job. I've worked around most of these issues (FireFox has a screenshot tool built-in,etc..) but once in a while I'll need to grab an xterm or something else. [ok this has just devolved into a rant.] I only have one 4k screen, and had some issues with scaling, but I'd be willing to take another stab at Sway.
- baq 7y ago
  I take screenshots All. The. Time. Multiple per day, usually just a part of a screen for pasting into an email or IM. Windows win+shift+s works great for this. I couldn’t live without an analogous feature.
- arccy 7y ago
  screenshots work, grim can do screenshots and chained with slurp you can select a region as well bindsym Print exec grim -g "$(slurp)" "$HOME/screenshot-$(date).png"
  - UI_at_80x24 7y ago
    I could have sworn I tried this. Thanks for posting. I'll bookmark it if/when I go back to Wayland.

UI_at_80x24 7y ago

I've gone from i3 -> sway -> i3. Maybe it has gotten better since I last used it; but generally I disliked it. There are 3 distinct issues I've had (one of which I believe was a Wayland-related problem). (1) I dislike how you can resize a window horizontal & vertical at the same time. Grab a corner, and adjust. I distinctly think that this is a feature and not a bug, I just don't like it. I vastly prefer i3's method of 'Adjust vertical' OR 'Adjust Horizontal' depending on where your mouse is. (2) Window-title bar. The size of the font/title bar dynamically changing. Lets say I have firefox open with 3 xterm windows in a even 2x2 matrix. I might have 10 Tabs in Firefox open. As I cycle through the firefox tabs the height of the title-bar changes to reflect the website name. With some sites the font size and/or style changes (from default) too. This causes the titlebar size to change by 1-2 pixels. That causes a screen refresh/redraw and my 2x2 window matrix is no longer 'aligned'. The lack of alignment doesn't bother me, but the 'flicker' it causes does. (3) Wayland specific: screenshots. I need to be able to take screenshots for parts of my job. I've worked around most of these issues (FireFox has a screenshot tool built-in,etc..) but once in a while I'll need to grab an xterm or something else. [ok this has just devolved into a rant.] I only have one 4k screen, and had some issues with scaling, but I'd be willing to take another stab at Sway.

baq 7y ago
I take screenshots All. The. Time. Multiple per day, usually just a part of a screen for pasting into an email or IM. Windows win+shift+s works great for this. I couldn’t live without an analogous feature.
arccy 7y ago
screenshots work, grim can do screenshots and chained with slurp you can select a region as well bindsym Print exec grim -g "$(slurp)" "$HOME/screenshot-$(date).png"
- UI_at_80x24 7y ago
  I could have sworn I tried this. Thanks for posting. I'll bookmark it if/when I go back to Wayland.