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But simple window managers for Wayland exist. Like sway (i3 clone for Wayland) Personally I also still use X11. Mainly because KDE on Wayland is currently brok
by _abox 4y ago
But simple window managers for Wayland exist. Like sway (i3 clone for Wayland)
Personally I also still use X11. Mainly because KDE on Wayland is currently broken on FreeBSD. And I'm not in a hurry anyway.
- brnt 4y ago> KDE on Wayland is currently broken on FreeBSD. Is for me too on Linux. On both a variety of Intel and Nvidia GPUs. On a variety of distros. And everytime I ask around, I'm told it works for others, so it must be me. Everytime forcing X11 solves all my problems. To be honest, last time I tried KDE on Wayland was a year ago, so perhaps it works now. Then again, so many years have passed where it turned out it didn't, that I'm not particularly keen to try.
- c7DJTLrn 4y agoIt's arguable whether sway is "simple". Last I remember it clocked in at ~50k lines of C excluding wlroots. Some X window managers are a few hundred lines.
- Daishiman 4y agoSounds like functionality that can be turned into a common library.
- Gigachad 4y agoIt is. Sway is based on WLRoots which you can easily import and build a new window manager on with minimal code. Most of the wayland fud is either seriously out of date, mistaken, or malicious.
- d_tr 4y agoFWIW, i3 is in the same ballpark, maybe a bit less if I am not mistaken.