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I'm in a similar boat as you. I switched from X11 to Wayland (also Sway) and from PulseAudio+Jack2 to Pipewire a couple weeks ago. I am in the extra difficult

by Taywee 5y ago

I'm in a similar boat as you. I switched from X11 to Wayland (also Sway) and from PulseAudio+Jack2 to Pipewire a couple weeks ago. I am in the extra difficult boat of doing it on a high DPI display (I assume you aren't, or you would have mentioned it, given how annoying it is to get everything working). GDK_DPI_SCALE, ELM_SCALE, QT_SCALE_FACTOR, MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND, QT_QPA_PLATFORM, XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP, XDG_SESSION_TYPE and a few other things are necessary to get everything working. Then you have little things like having to do xdg-desktop-portal to do screencasting, little nits like not being able to screen-share a window at a time (only a full desktop). It's definitely not a super easy and comfortable transition at the moment. I'd recommend most anybody who wants to do it use a DE that takes care of as much of the pain as possible, like modern Gnome or something. Sway itself is nice. I've never used i3, but I've used Awesome for like a decade, so Sway is not a big jump. Moving to Pipewire was really easy, on the other hand. Mostly drop-in, and I had some annoying audio issues both with PulseAudio and Jack2 that Pipewire completely fixes for me. I absolutely love it, and feel like Linux audio is in an acceptable place for the first time in my life. edit: oh, and before Firefox 93, I had to force Firefox to run in X11, because extension popup windows were broken on Sway due to a Firefox bug. Much of the testing for Wayland applications is done only on Gnome.

bravetraveler 5y ago
Ouch, I hadn't even considered highDPI! You're right, haven't crossed that bridge myself. I have three displays but all rather normal pixel density. Agreed - if someone wants Wayland, I'd have to suggest Gnome (or even KDE, I hear they're doing well). As usual with window managers, you've got to build your own fun - and moving to Wayland (through Sway) has not been that. I started with i3 - so I basically had a working config to copy/extend... but the amount of extension necessary - oh buddy.

by Taywee 5y ago

bravetraveler 5y ago

Ouch, I hadn't even considered highDPI! You're right, haven't crossed that bridge myself. I have three displays but all rather normal pixel density. Agreed - if someone wants Wayland, I'd have to suggest Gnome (or even KDE, I hear they're doing well). As usual with window managers, you've got to build your own fun - and moving to Wayland (through Sway) has not been that. I started with i3 - so I basically had a working config to copy/extend... but the amount of extension necessary - oh buddy.