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> If you are coming from i3 the move to sway is a no-brainer and works great It may work great, but it's not as well packaged by/for upstream as i3. I recentl
by e12e 7y ago
> If you are coming from i3 the move to sway is a no-brainer and works great
It may work great, but it's not as well packaged by/for upstream as i3.
I recently started running wayland+gnome (rather than i3) on my Ubuntu 18.04 at work - because less bad support for fractional scaling looks a bit better on my two 24" with different dpi.
But there didn't appear to be a "no effort" way to install sway (yet). Especially not with automatic (security) patches.
I'm hopeful it'll be in 20.04?
- Kaze404 7y agoCompiling sway is literally three commands (not counting cloning the repository).
- e12e 7y agoSure, the instructions are clear. But since there isn't a build ready for 18.04 - that kind of makes me wonder about the versions/state of dependencies too - that is - the packaged dependencies in 18.04. They'll generally be frozen at the point 18.04 was frozen - so api and versions from 2017 or so. With 20.04 around the corner, I'd rather wait than faff around.
- abrowne 7y agoSway is in 19.10 already, but 20.04 also adds some nice extras like wofi, wdisplays and mako.